Quotes About Choices

Life is essentially a question of values.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

At the judgement day a man will be called to account for all the good things he might have enjoyed and did not enjoy.

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

Having no choices, no agency, was a killer, but having too many was equally crippling.

Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to grow, how to breathe, and how to sleep, but NOTHING that tells us to die. So why do we? Because we literally rust and decay our bodies from the inside out with poor food and lifestyle choices.

There are too many books in the world to waste time slogging through the ones you hate.

Those forced to make impossible choices are rarely loved. If it's approval and reputation you care about, then you have no place here.

There are always consequences to wrong choices.

relying on junk food for bursts of energy; smoking or drinking to manage anxiety; furiously multitasking to meet demands; setting aside more challenging, long-term projects in favor of what feels immediately pressing and easier to accomplish, and devoting little energy to personal relationships. The costs of these choices and many others only show up over time.

Psychologists talk about the three parts of the mind: the cognitive (reason and other mental processes), the conative (the will), and the affective (feelings and emotions). All of these are involved in the choices we make, but the engine that drives the train is the affective power. The traditional word for it is "heart.

Regardless of how intelligent we may be, if we make stupid choices, we will suffer the consequences.

A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Our conscious minds are clever, but unfortunately, they just don't have the full awareness we need to make appropriate choices day by day.

I never touch sweets. I'd much rather have a dill pickle - if I ever ate ice cream I'm sure I'd surround it with pickles. […] I never touch potatoes because I learned a long time ago not to like what made me fat. I honestly believe that I don't like potatoes...

old ways of doing things. It is the ability to make ancient truth the living memory of today. Only the elderly have lived through both the good and the bad decisions of the past. It is they, then, who have the wisdom to alert us to alternatives, to evaluate present choices from the perspective of history. The role of

Si no te gusta lo que está creciendo a tu alrededor, necesitas considerar cambiar lo que estás sembrando. ¿Estás invitando espíritus de temor, enojo, odio y rebeldía del enemigo? ¿O estás invitando dones espirituales de amor, gozo, paz y paciencia de Dios?

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Choices were so easy when I was a child. Good guy versus bad guy, and the good guys always won. But I'm no longer a child.