Elias Canetti Quotes

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Dare to be Free.

We ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives.

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

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

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do.

We should let women make their own decisions.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.