Henry James Quotes

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

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

Don't take advice. You have to make up your own mind what to do from the beginning.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

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.

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

I know what I need. I don't want people to tell me what I need.

I know what's best for me, and I want to do things my way. So, now I listen to my inner voice and my heart - and that's how I make my decisions.