#choice

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#apocalypse #cassie #choices #fiction #horror

It wasn’t that she necessarily wanted to “socialize” at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#behavior #bonfire #choice #cliques #horror

So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#decision-making #comfort

If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance. ↗

— Susan Del Gatto

#problem-solving #procrastination #stress-management-maintenance #path

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#virtue #virtue

If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#potential #resistance

Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#decisions #decisions

أن كل شيء يمكن أن يؤخذ من الإنسان عدا شيئًا واحدًا : وهذا الشيء الواحد هو آخر شيء من الحريات الانسانية - وهو أن يختار المرء اتجاهه في ظروف معينة ، إي أن يختار المرء طريقه ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#freedom #freedom

But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn't depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I'd just remember about football. All this time I'd thought I wanted to be a trainer, when it turned out I wanted to be a player instead. I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom this gave me—I can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it. I am not a cow. ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#cow #freedom #freedom

In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for himself, with no other guidance than Your example. But did it never occur to You that man would disregard Your example, even question it, as well as Your truth, when he was subjected to so fearful a burden as freedom of choice? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#divine-truth #freedom-of-choice #freedom