Daily Inspiration Quote by William Glasser

Control is Glasser's bait word, and he knows it. By linking "better choice" to "being in control", he taps a distinctly modern anxiety: that life is something happening to us rather than something we steer. The line is motivational on its face, but its real intent is diagnostic. If you feel trapped, Glasser implies, the trap is often partly constructed by the way you narrate your options.

The careful hedge - "almost always" - is doing heavy ethical work. Glasser isn't naive about constraint; he's making room for illness, poverty, violence, bureaucracy, the brutal facts that shrink agency. Yet he refuses to let those facts become a worldview. The subtext is a rebuke to learned helplessness and to the therapeutic habit of explaining behavior entirely through past injury. In Glasser's world, relief comes less from excavating origins than from practicing responsibility in the present.

Context matters: Glasser's Choice Theory and Reality Therapy were built as an alternative to models that position people as managed by drives, diagnoses, or external control. So "better" doesn't mean morally superior in the abstract; it means more effective at meeting needs without wrecking relationships. That's the quiet interpersonal clause embedded in an individualistic-sounding sentence. Agency isn't just autonomy; it's self-command that doesn't demand someone else pay the bill.

The line works because it shifts the locus of power without pretending power is limitless. It flatters the reader just enough to be usable: you can't control everything, but you can often control your next move, and that changes the story you're living inside.