Once you choose

Once you choose your path, watch for the miracles to begin showing up.

~Zen to Zany

If you knew

"If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?"

~ Robert Brault

The ultimate choice

"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate."

~Erich Fromm

No man chooses evil

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Given the chance

"Given the chance, you would deny me my life, wouldn't you?"

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

When choosing

When choosing between two evils,
I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.

~Mae West

Choice is an illusion

“Choice is an illusion. Do I do this – do I do that – all of this is confusion. I can only choose when I’m confused. When I know clearly, there is no choice.”

~unknown

We cannot

We cannot change anything until we accept it.

~Carl Jung

When I use a word

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

~Lewis Carroll

There are risks

There are risks and costs to a programme of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

~John F. Kennedy

Unless your heart

"Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness."

~ Unknown

Live as if

"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!"

~Viktor E. Frankl

Between stimulus and response

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

~Viktor E. Frankl

Man is capable

"Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary."

~Viktor E. Frankl

We can discover

"We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways:
(1) by creating a work or doing a deed;
(2) by experiencing a something or encountering someone; and
(3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering."

~Viktor E. Frankl

When we are

"When we are no longer able to change a situation – just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer – we are challenged to change ourselves."

~Viktor E. Frankl

Fundamentally

"Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him – mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp."

~Viktor E. Frankl

We who lived

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

~Viktor E. Frankl

One thing we can do

"One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety."

-- Deepak Chopra

Persons and societies

"Persons and societies do not submit passively to surroundings and events. They make choices as to the places where they live and the activities in which they engage -- choices based on what they want to be, to do and to become. Furthermore, persons and societies often change their goals and ways; they can even retrace their steps and start in a new direction if they believe they are on a wrong course. Thus, whereas animal life is prisoner of biological evolution which is essentially irreversible, human life has the wonderful freedom of social evolution which is rapidly reversible and creative. Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny."

-- Rene Dubos