#cho

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#choices #free-will #future #god #life

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#anna-cornick #charles-cornick #choice #cry-wolf #faith

Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#dreams #freedom #dreams

Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known, For brooks that I had crossed, ...Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last, Yet name no name of ills. Say only, "Here is where he passed, Seeking again those hills. ↗

— Witter Bynner

#melancholy #regret #yearning #death

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler. ↗

— Milos Forman

#england #france #happened #hitler #just

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #religion

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#go #going #i #i can #long

In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#clique #definitely #friends #good #good girls

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consciousness #illusions #life #natural #path

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexuality #subconscious #yoga