Personal Choice Quotes

“Fear and excitement are twins; they live on opposite sides of the same door. It's up to you which room you live in.

[Violet Harper Armitage]”
― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game: Unravel the Puzzles in This Festive Murder Mystery

“We tend to learn from bad examples, but we should take care not to use bad examples as a rationalization of our own bad behavior.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Life presents all of us with an endless string of disconcerting contingences and bewildering coincidences that hold significance for human beings.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Life is exactly what you make it; it can be a heaven or hell; it's all up to you.”
― Steven Redhead, The Solution

“Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.”
― Megha Khare, Write like no one is reading 2

“Personal change requires motivation, a plan, and determination to see a plan through to fruition. Although I elected to change the way that I live, this decision was not easy to implement. We frequently act against our better judgment. We sometimes know the correct thing to do, but still struggle doing so. The Ancient Greeks used the term akrasia to refer to a person knowing what course of action is correct and righteous, but electing do somethings else because of a lack of self-control.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Choice is the mortar that binds together the things that make us who we are.”
― Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4

“A respect for choice, if taken seriously, does not translate into the simplistic libertarian prescriptions often trotted out on the heels of the personal responsibility rhetoric. It is impossible to have accountability for choices with no legal or regulatory mechanism to enforce it.”
― Kent Greenfield, The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits

“In a way, the view that we are chained to our natures and the belief that we are products of external forces are diametrically opposed. One sees each human as a product of his or her own static character and disposition. The other sees each individual as an object on which circumstances act. Both see human behavior as constrained rather than free. One can be agnostic about whether internal or external forces are more influential in any given case and still acknowledge that the end result is limit rather than choice.”
― Kent Greenfield, The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits

“One person's bullshit is another person's redbull.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator