Quotes About Choices

Your standards in life will define the kind of life you end up living.

Much of morality is peculiar to mortality.

Please do not obsess over choices you cannot change. Mistakes happen. Learn from the past, but concentrate on the present and the future.

I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.

All people must accept that we have the potential to do terrible things. It is part of seeing our place in the universe, our heritage, and our natures. But in that acceptance we gain strength, for potential can be refused. Any hero who could have been a monster is more heroic for the choices he or she made to walk another road.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.

Because they don't want to make choices anymore, he thought. Choices can be hard.

Have you ever had to choose between two equally distasteful choices?" "Every day I choose to keep breathing.

Funny, isn't it, how so many of our stories start the same way, but have opposing endings? In half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders. There aren't many stories about the kids who say, 'Yes, I shall not go into the forest. I'm glad my parents explained that is where the monsters live.

Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options." Sazed

Si siempre llegas a tiempo, eso significa que nunca tienes nada mejor que hacer.

I've found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll just end up miserable.

There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering.

La cuestión", respondió ella, "no es si amarás, sufrirás, soñarás y morirás. Es qué amarás, por qué sufrirás, cuándo soñarás y cómo morirás. Esas son tus elecciones. No puedes elegir la destinación, solo el camino".

she thought about her choices… [how] something you loved so much, like the girl she held to now, could also be a reminder of one of the greatest mistakes you'd ever made… until she understood that mistakes could turn into amazing, wonderful, cherished things... with the right perspective.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

So a child's path is already determined by age five, provided his or her parents have enough knowledge, foresight, and indeed money. Very few poor or less educated parents have the resources or knowledge to make these choices so early on.

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

When we feel good about the choices we're making and when we're engaging with the world from a place of worthiness rather than scarcity, we feel no need to judge and attack.

Here's what I found: Men and women who live Wholeheartedly do indeed DIG Deep. They just do it in a different way. When they're exhausted and overwhelmed, they get Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply setting their intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.

And they all share the same formula of shame, comparison, and disengagement. Scarcity bubbles up from these conditions and perpetuates them until a critical mass of people start making different choices and reshaping the smaller cultures they belong to.

Wholeheartedly do indeed DIG Deep. They just do it in a different way. When they're exhausted and overwhelmed, they get Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply setting their intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.