Martha Beck Quotes

The more choices you have--the more options you have, the better off you are.

I always want my options to be open.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

I always say don't make plans, make options.

You don't have to be either.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

It's never bad to have options.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

We always have a choice.

The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?