Choice Theme

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

The choices we make can have lasting consequences.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters – all that matters, really – is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, everpresent consciousness. The rest – women, art, suecess – is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

You can choose your friends but you sho‘ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ‘em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

Victor’s unfortunate choice it was always to mis-see, to mis-hear, to misjudge.

To stand in front of a person who is your whole world and be told you are not enough. You are not the choice. You are a shadow to the person who is your sun.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.