Quotes Tagged "choices"

To be too knowing is a downfall.

What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.

If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.

In love, vulnerability is inevitable; finding beauty in it is a choice.

She sees the best in the world. Not because she is exposed to the best. She’s exposed to the same madness as everybody else. She chooses to see the beauty in all.

I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge.

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.

Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.

I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.