Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

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

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

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

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

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

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

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

To live is to choose.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.