Quotes About Choices

Good and evil come Unannounced, to Mankind:

I could lead the best, the happiest life if I wasn't a fool.

As the great mythologist Joseph Campbell said, follow your bliss and the universe miraculously supports your choices for a happier and healthier way of life. Therefore

If you must alleviate your frustration by eating, eat the right foods.

There's a great difficulty in making choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one choice seems satisfactory for very long by comparison with the aggregate desirability of all the rest, though compared to any *one* of the others it would not be found inferior. All equally attractive but none finally inviting.

Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.

There are a million roads into hell, but not one road out of it.

El tiempo es tu vida; ni más, ni menos. La manera cómo gastas las horas y los días es la manera como gastas la vida.

It's as if she understood completely the condition of loneliness and how it undermines us all, forcing us to make choices that we know are wrong for us.

Hustle to keep your kids on or off the Internet, eating organic or local or nothing at all. Take these actions, or none. Just don't worry about them. There is nothing to worry about, and there never was.

Non avevo mai avuto l'impressione di crescere all'ombra di mia madre: vivevo nel mio mondo, uno spazio di cui lei aveva delimitato i confini, lasciandomi però libera di riempirlo come meglio credevo. Mia madre viveva come aveva scelto di vivere, e sapevo che il lavoro era la cosa che contava di più per lei, ma questo consentiva anche a me di vivere come volevo e di decidere liberamente cosa contava di più per me...

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

Just moo for me,' Ed said. 'Maybe a wee Hobnob?' 'I only have Rich Tea,' Myra said. 'Sorry.' 'That's alright, love.' To Bob: 'Cardboard. That's the sort of biscuits they start dishing out on the lifeboat when they're done eating the other passengers.

Economics, when you strip away the guff and the mathematical sophistry, is largely about incentives.

Most criminals are kind of dumb, which is why they're criminals. If they weren't criminals, they'd be doing something else to screw up people's lives, like running elections in Florida

Benny's was more of a restaurant than a bar, assuming you were prepared to be generous with your definition of a restaurant ... A menu board on the wall above had adjustable plastic letters and numbers arranged into the kind of prices that hadn't changed since Elvis died, and the kinds of food choices that had helped kill him.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.