Browsing Quotes With Tag: choice (72)
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Compared with marriage, being born is a mere episode in our careers, and dying a trivial incident.
Speaker: Dorothy DixPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In almost any subject, your passion for the subject will save you. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. If you wish to be good, you will be good. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to be learned, you will be learned. Only then you must really wish these things and wish them with exclusiveness and not wish one hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 5:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Charlie, don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you’re not even there sometimes. It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things.”
“Like what?” I asked. My mouth was dry.
“I don’t know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want.”Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The Prophet never asserted that he was the last of all prophets nor did he claim to have said all there was to say. Submission to God’s will is not to be a robot, incapable of choice and thus of sin. Submission can include – does include – utter responsibility for the fashion in which I, and each of us, shape the universe. It is ours to turn into a heavenly garden… or to rend and destroy.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism’ is the worse. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice – if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice’ – you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness… the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can’t have both. The ordinary bloke suffers every time he chooses between spending a buck on beer or tucking it away for his kids, between getting up to go to work or losing his job. But he always chooses what hurts least or pleasures most. The scoundrel and the saint make the same choices on a larger scale.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Ah, how shameless—the way these mortals blame the gods.
From us alone, they say, come all their miseries, yes,
But they themselves, with their own reckless ways,
Compound their pains beyond their proper share.” ZeusSpeaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s a currency like any other, self-worth. You spend year saving up, and you can blow it all in an evening if you so choose. I’d done forty-odd years’ worth in the space of a few months, and now I had to save up again.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 9:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I gave the boy back into Parvati’s arms, and wiped a hand across my face and into my hair. Looking at the people, listening to the breathing, heaving, laughing, struggling music of the slum, all around me, I remembered one of Khaderbhai’s favorite phrases. Every human heartbeat, he’d said many times, is a universe of possibilities. And it seemed to me that I finally understood exactly what he’d meant. He’d been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I’d always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of the stars. But I suddenly realized that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“It is always a fool’s mistake,” Didier once said to me, “to be alone with someone you shouldn’t have loved.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Fate always gives you two choices,” Scorpio George once said: “the one you should take, and the one you do.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Character is the kind of thing which discloses the nature of a choice.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!