Quotes about Choice

Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life

Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People

A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Will or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.

After all, nobody likes to be sold. But we all like to make good buying decisions.

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.