Quotes About Choices

The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine.

I want to see life through a spiritual perspective, so I can make choices that influence eternity.

Your life will fly by, so make sure you're the pilot.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we're living.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Oh, this journey! It was two hours cut clean out of his life; two hours in which he might have done so much, so much—written the perfect poem, for example, or read the one illuminating book.

Così adesso,volendo riassumere volendo, il problema è questo,che ho tante strade intorno e nessuna dentro.

Poi non è che la vita vada come tu te la immagini. Fa la sua strada. E tu la tua.

Sarebbe tutto più semplice se non ti avessero inculcato questa storia del finire da qualche parte. [...] Tutte quelle storie sulla tua strada. [...] Magari invece siamo fatti per vivere in una piazza, o in un giardino pubblico, fermi lì, a far passare la vita, magari siamo un crocicchio [...]. Sono gli altri, le strade, io sono una piazza, non porto in nessun posto, io sono un posto.

But we all waste opportunities,' said Domenica. Every single one of us. Every young person does it. It's because we think we have so much time, and then, when we realise that our time is finite, it's too late.

All of us had hard choices, she thought; the greatest of us and the least of us, and we had to feel our way through them and accept that there would sometimes be regrets.

high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later...

I sometimes find myself thinking: wouldn't it be far less complicated to have a job like that? To sell things? To order cheese and salamis and all the rest and not worry about what we should do and how we should do it?

We were all just people who chose to call ourselves by curious things known as names, and the only significant difference between any of us lay in what we did with our lives.

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.