Quotes About Choices

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

I try so hard to be tolerant of everyone and their choices, but people who harm pets or support factory farming have an enemy in me.

Because people are people. Evie fixed her eyes on him. People have complicated lives. Lives that don't necessarily fall so cleanly into black-and-white choices - people are blind, but still well-intended, and see as far as they can.

Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks in between. In the inexplicable, invisible turns and decisions. A person saying no instead of yes. …It is not that they had lived…but how.

They are moral choices. And they are being made by a self-dealing network whose private-sector members have been handed control of the public trust to a degree unprecedented in the United States, even in the Gilded Age.

Freedom comes with responsibility; it comes with privilege and a conscience. It comes with difficult choices. We cannot stand by and allow the Authority to do what it is doing any more. We cannot wait for them to come and take apart what we've made. I will not allow it. You know me. I will not allow it.

Olga sits on the carpet in front of her shelves with stacks of books scattered around her, struggling to pick between her old favorites. She's all bent over, like a puppet without a hand inside it.

Bad choices are part of life, aren't they? Doesn't mean your next choice can't be a good one.

You can have as much of Me and My Peace as you want, through thousands of correct choices each day. The most persistent choice you face is whether to trust Me or to worry. You will never run out of things to worry about, but you can choose to trust Me no matter what. I am an ever-present help in trouble. Trust Me, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea.

You must make your choices one at a time, since each is contingent upon the decision that precedes it. Instead of trying to create a mental map of your path through this day, focus on My loving Presence with you. I will equip you as you go, so that you can handle whatever comes your way. Trust Me to supply what you need when you need it.

Paying attention also requires inhibiting certain responses when making the above choices. This involves inhibiting the following: Acting until information has been processed Speaking out one's thoughts (This involves internalizing speech or "talking inside your head" without actually speaking one's thoughts out loud unless that is the desired thing to do!)

Want and sorrow are the gifts which folly earns for itself.

you can look inside yourself and find strength to make choices you believe in, even if others do not agree with those choices.

Which is worse? The horror of waking up alone or the horror of waking up next to someone else?

when our thinking is informed by diverse logically consistent, empirically validated frames, we are more likely to make wise choices.

Actions may be outside our control. Few people choose to be addicted to opioids or to be poor. Yet people take actions that produce those outcomes.

The activities you spent your time on yesterday were the things that were important to you. Calendars don't lie.

Have you ever stopped for a minute to think about how many things had to go wrong in your life for you to end up exactly where you are?

Liquor does this? Even after you're sober?" "A cruel joke, isn't it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.

The world is full of conundrums that will tax your skills. Do you presume that you will always get to choose the ones that best suit your strengths?

Q: Who makes more money, a drug dealer or a hooker? A: A hooker, because she can wash her crack and reuse it.

We are all born, and we all die—be it from age and illness, like your people, or from battle, like mine. Everything between is what you make of it," Grimnir said.

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

Choices have consequences.