Quotes About Choices

Story of a Girl By:Sara Zarr *Lexile:760 SRC:12 pts. *Personal Issues *Choice of getting a job to move out *Major Choice *In Process of making it happen *It effects her bother his girlfriend and their baby, because they will move out with her too. *Sometimes we need to take choices that will make your life easier and also others.

Whether you made your choices with your eyes open or closed, they're made. It's not time to regret them; it's time to live with the consequences.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are those the only options?' Not always. Just sometimes.

For most of us, once something was busted, it was game over. I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

Make your choices well, my mom had said. It was what she thought she hadn't done, what she hoped above everything I'd do differently. On the flip side, though, there was Clyde, telling me that there were second chances, even-and especially- when you've given up all hope of them. But maybe, when a life and summer was going so fast, you couldn't wait for fate to punch the time card. You had to do it yourself.

There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so many If Onlys, but each place I thought to stop meant missing something that came later. I needed it all, in the end, to make my own story find its finish.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you...make your choices well. Because you will always be accountable for them.

That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count. What you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it ? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So don't be afraid. Be alive.

It seemed like things either stayed just the same or changed irrevocably. And like most times I found myself with hard choices, I just wished there was something clear and easy, right in between.

If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

What you have to decide," Kristy said to me, leaning forward, "is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it?

Free personalities getting no help from either deaf heaven or neutral earth were facing mortally dangerous choices which would determine the future of civilization.

Vrei sa spui ca la "Viata" nu exista solutie? – Vreau sa spun ca la "Viata" exista mai multe solutii, prin urmare ea n-are solutie. – Dupa mine, Tanti Roz, singura solutie la viata este sa traiesti.

And yes, it all might end at any moment for any of us, in violence or not, but what matters is what we do before that. The lives we lead.

He remarked as much to Charlotte on his return, and she was inclined to agree with him. 'As life draws us along,' she replied, 'we think we are acting of our own volition, ourselves choosing what we shall do and what we shall enjoy; but when we look more closely we see they are only the intentions and inclinations of the age which we are being compelled to comply with.

A useless life is an early death.