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We usually understand freedom as meaning that there are many choices - but does having more choices, or believing we do, actually make us more free?
Sep 10, 2025
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
The path you take is up to you. Make good choices, dream BIG, it is never too late.
Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you.
Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.
When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.
Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.
First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.
Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.
Each brushstroke is a decision.
All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.
The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives.
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
For my part, I can't do anything else but what I am doing.
You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.
Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.
Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process does not change the essential content of their work in art, which can only be their life.
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.
Our choice is between cynicism and hope.
Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.
One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.
Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.
Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.
In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.