972 quotes found
“But I don't care what you think, not about these things anyway. If you don't think they're real or important or you think that we'll all grow out of this nonsense, well, that's not really my busine...”
“I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer”
“But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.”
“You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path t...”
“There comes a moment in every life when the Universe presents you with an opportunity to rise to your potential. An open door that only requires the heart to walk through, seize it and hang on.The ...”
“We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.”
“At some point the choice you will face is whether to carry out your duties or live your life”
“In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.”
“Lions are born knowing they are predators. Antelopes understand they are the prey.Humans are one of the few creatures on Earth given the choice.”
“I never gave him a chance to decide if I was worth loving. I'd taken that choice away from him - because I feared what it would be.”
“She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever...”
“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”
“It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.”
“Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, i...”
“A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the dif...”
“Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.”
“For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises dont matter as much aspersonal choice.”
“If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”
“One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and...”