Quotes About Choices

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did.

It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

There were reasons to leave, and reasons to stay, and all of it was the same.

It'll be dark soon, Rudy.' He walked on. 'So what?' 'I'm going back.' Rudy stopped and watched her now as if she were betraying him. 'That's right, book thief. Leave me now. I bet if there was a lousy book at the end of this road, you'd keep walking. Wouldn't you?

We can't keep people from following their own paths, no matter how much we love them.

He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god called Time? It won't be that convulsive, heart-bursting spell between twenty-eight and thirty-five. No. It'll be that really cool bit between eighty-six and ninety-three.

on daytime drinking] 'Yes, well it all comes down to choices, doesn't it?' he said. 'It's the same in the evenings. Do you want to feel good at night or do you want to feel good in the morning? It's the same with life. Do you want to feel good young or do you want to feel good old? One or the other, not both.

Girls, in those days, couldn't do anything to you (they couldn't call the lawyers, the tabloids, the cops) except kill themselves or get pregnant. All they had was life: they could augment it, they could bear it away. They could subtract from it or they could add to it; and that was all.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

she'd neglected to make choices for her inner self as well. She'd given away too much.

Bad luck is what we conveniently call our bad choices.

We can only do what we can live with.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything.

Ah, this feels just like the old times... I still miss you and the others, you know, and life at school and those times when two or more of us would sit up talking far too late into the night. Which is not to say I would give up my present life to return there, but... Well, even happy choices involve some sacrifice. And most of us, I suppose, would like to both have our cake and eat it if only it were possible

considero que el cerebro de cada cual es como una pequeña pieza vacía que vamos amueblando con elementos de nuestra elección. Un necio echa mano de cuanto encuentra a su paso, de modo que el conocimiento que pudiera serle útil, o no encuentra cabida o, en el mejor de los casos, se halla tan revuelto con las demás cosas que resulta difícil dar con él.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean?

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

Freedom of the will is a metaphysical question outside the scope of this book; but considered as a subjective datum of experience, 'free will' is the awareness of alternative choices.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life

You want to live? You better figure out your life.