#choice

Dante laughed. "No cold soup, no goat cheese. I'll make a mental note. And no Gottfried Curse." "And for you it's no food at all. No sleep. And no tunnels." "I'm low maintenance." "Is that what you are? Because I've been trying to figure it out all semester." "And what have you concluded?" "A mutant. A rare disease. A creature from the inferno. Dante." "And what if you found out you were right?" he asked. "What if it meant that I could hurt you?" "I would say that I'm not scared. Everyone has the ability to hurt. It's the choice that matters. ↗

— Yvonne Woon

#hurt #love #pain #beauty

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#accepting #choices #define #either #every

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#ever #i #know #made #me

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#advance #against #between #capability #choice

Go far from home and yo will have a long way back. ↗

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

#life-experience #experience

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea? ↗

— James Hilton

#life #random

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An 'instinct' in as unerring and automatic form of knowledge. A desire is not an instinct. A desire to live does not give you the knowledge required for living. And even man's desire to live is not automatic: your secret evil today is that that is the desire you do not hold. Your fear of death is not a love of life and will not give you the knowledge needed to keep it. Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#human-nature #instincts #life #man #thought

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#determinism #freedom #will #freedom

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#choice #good-and-evil

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both. ↗

— Sarah Kay

#choice #love #worst #you #love