#choices

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#good-people #human-nature #hypocrisy #pretending #roles

Man is able to snatch everything except one thing, the last of human freedoms: the choice of an attitude under any given set of circumstances to determine his own path. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#choices-and-consequences #freedom #meaning-of-life #attitude

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#choices #free-will #future #god #life

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices. ↗

— Martha Beck

#bank #brain #choices #entire #everything

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#choices #drastic #had #i #losing

Life is a matter of really tough choices. ↗

— Joe Biden

#life #life is a #matter #really #tough

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#choices #decisions #favor #going #make

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#choices #fear #generally #hollywood #hollywood movies

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#constantly #happenstance #make

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#choices #early #go #i #making