All Quotes By Tag: Choices-and-consequences

“You have a choice, you can be someone who makes it happen or someone who lets it happen.”

“The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.”

“Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.”

“But you just choose because that’s where you want to be. Not because you were trying to do somebody else’s job. You hear me?”

“Zakath stared at the floor. ‘I suddenly feel very helpless,’ he admitted, ‘and I don’t like the feeling. I’ve been rather effectively dethroned, you know. This morning I was the Emperor of the largest nation on earth; this afternoon, I’m going to be a vagabond.’You might find it refreshing,’ Silk told him lightly.Shut up, Kheldar,’ Zakath said almost absently. He looked back at Polgara. ‘You know something rather peculiar?’What’s that?’Even if I hadn’t given my word, I’d still have to go to Kell. It’s almost like a compulsion. I feel as if I’m being driven, and my driver is a blindfolded girl who’s hardly more than a child.’There are rewards,’ she told him.Such as what?’Who knows? Happiness, perhaps.’He laughed ironically. ‘Happiness has never been a driving ambition of mine, Lady Polgara, not for a long time now.’You may have to accept it anyway,’ She smiled. ‘We aren’t allowed to choose our rewards any more than we are our tasks. Those decisions are made for us.”

“An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters.”

“You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.”

“You opinions about me does not change who I am.”

“We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.”