Quotes About Choices

Pay heed, my darlings, and always take the greatest care over the company you keep in life: if death strikes you without warning, you may be stuck with them til the moon turns to blood and wouldn't that be a torment?

There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

There are men you build a future with, Dani. And then there are men that you know, going in, that you're only making a memory with. I know the difference ..Some memories are worth the price. I'll deal with it.

Sometimes the things we think will set us free Ã¢â'¬Â¦ only make more chains. You either wear them or break them, and I Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, I don't want to wear them.

When someone hurts you - and I'm not talking about forgivable offenses, some things are irrevocable and demand recompense-you have two choices: slice them out of your life or slice them into delicious, bloody pieces. While the latter would be infinitely more satisfying in an immediate, animalistic way, it changes you. And, although you think the memory of the battle won will be a please-if it is a pleasure, you've lost the war.

For a moment I thought Mother and Da had told you, even though they hadn't told me." "No, lass. They didn't tell anyone. And maybe they were a bit heavy-handed, but you can approach this in one of two ways: You can be angry and spiteful and ruin your chances, or you can thank Providence and your da for fetching you the best of the best, Jillian." Jillian rolled her eyes. "If those men are the best, then it's the cloister for certain.

Lines are thin. So easy to cross. Impossible to uncross.

Still, I seem to be stuck on a runaway train, barreling down the track despite all warnings that I'm about to jump it and either crash into something horrific or end up in a no-man's-land without a compass. My damned Highlander heart. I'm an Unseelie prince with Keltar chivalry in my blood that will never cease governing my actions so long as my heart beats. No woman, no person should ever have to live without choices, without control over their life.

all about what we can live with and what we can't live without.

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for. <...> I may have been forced into this war, but I'm learning to choose my battles.<...> People treat you as badly as you let them treat you.

Why are you so pissed at me? It's not my fault who I am. The only thing that's my fault is what I choose to do with it.

There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy." "That's for sure," agreed Rocky. "But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.

What you need is some balance in your life: to know when to say no and when to say yes, how to ask for help as easily as you give it, when to let other people live with the consequences of their choices, how to be honest with yourself (always) and forthright and direct with other people (most of the time), and why it's important to give up striving to be perfect and accept your perfectly imperfect self.

Be careful of the magician that tricks you into believing that what you do with food has no consequences.

Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again.

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

We all make choices, Miss Szarka. And if it doesn't work out the way we wanted it to, we can spend a lifetime blaming ourselves or blaming others. Either way, we've spent a lifetime blaming instead of a lifetime doing other things...I think the possibilities for second chances are everywhere if we just look hard enough." Eve

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough.

Everything I've ever learned has brought me to this one conclusion – we are all thrown into this world without a road map, and it's up to us to muddle through. We are free to make a mess of it or to make a success out of our lives. Most of us choose something in between.

The Must list is short because you are going to say "no" to anything that does not check every box on it.