Quotes About Choices

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.

It is too simple to pet a stray dog then watch it run under a car and say it wasn't mine It is too simple to admire a rose then pick it and forget to put water in the vase It is too simple to use a person for loving without love then leave him standing alone and say I don't know him anymore It is too simple to know one's flaws then live them at great cost to others and say that's just the way I am It is too simple the way we sometimes live our lives for after all life simply is a serious matter

Y seguiré ahí, lamentándome de todo lo que haga, de todo lo que deje, de todo lo que tome, tanto lo bueno como lo malo.

Se, per miracolo, qualche secolo venisse aggiunto ai pochi giorni che mi restano, rifarei le stesse cose, persino gli stessi errori, frequenterei gli stessi Olimpi e i medesimi Inferi.

el amor por una persona determinada, aun siendo tan desgarrador, no suele ser sino un hermoso accidente pasajero, menos real en cierto sentido que las predisposiciones y opciones que lo preceden y que sobrevivirán a él.

Si por milagro algunos siglos vinieran a agregarse a los pocos días que me quedan, volvería a hacer las mismas cosas y hasta incurriría en los mismos errores; frecuentaría los mismos Olimpos y los mismos Infiernos.

No perder nunca de vista el diagrama de una vida humana, que no se compone, por más bien que se diga, de una horizontal y de dos perpendiculares, sino más bien de tres líneas sinuosas, perdidas hacia el infinito, constantemente próximas y divergentes: lo que un hombre ha creído ser, lo que ha querido ser, y lo que fue.

It was just that this was real life and no decision was clearly sign-posted. It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and you're life's a disaster. In real life it's often almost impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes--often--neck and neck.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

He was so intent on running away from the specter of his parents' life that he had never stopped to properly consider what he should have been running toward. Teddy

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

Si cada cigarro que fumas te quita siete minutos de tu vida, cada juego de Dungeons & Dragons que juegas retrasa la pérdida de tu virginidad siete horas.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

All this seems preposterous. But in fact one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are possible.

one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are possible.

There are many ways to live a good life

You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool's end.

used to tell people, 'Don't eat so much or you'll die, don't smoke so much or you'll die, don't work so much or you'll die, don't drink so much or you'll die.' Nobody listens. You know why? Because I don't say, 'You will die tomorrow.

Strangers decide their lives.

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE LIVED BADLY

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.