You can HAVE, DO or BE, anything you want! It's a choice and it's YOUR CHOICE.
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.
With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.
As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.
I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.
Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.
At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
Being gay or lesbian is not a choice.
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend. . . when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
Does choice exist when I see something very clearly?
When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.
Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.
We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.
When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.
In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which was brutal and killed hundreds of thousands of people - it was the Soviet Union's Vietnam. I'm just saying that now, in these new wars, whole countries have slipped into mayhem - the women have just been pushed back into their burqas - and not by choice.
It was never my first choice to be a singerguitar player. I really wanted to play drums.