Grace Paley Quotes

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Man is condemned to be free.

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

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.