Quotes About Choices

It all depends on what you think is important, and, when the important stuff is happening, whether you're looking directly at it or looking away.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can't explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

Follow your dreams, make your best choices, and peace will come as you realize that you are on the best path for yourself.

In my fairy- tale ending, we would have both survived the war and called it a miracle, but it seems that triumph in life is infinitely more subtle. I am damaged from the war, but I'm not broken. My heart is, at times, lonely, but I am still loved. Life was never meant to be as perfect as I had supposed; rather we are to adapt, make our best choices, and then live with the consequences, learning that it will all be okay.

don't we all choose to live in the dump in certain aspects of our lives?

Sometimes the roads we choose in life are just messy.

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

One moment follows another. Next comes from previous. So you have to stay on your toes. Protect yourself. Listen to that little voice inside you that says, "Don't do that! You won't like the consequences." Look at all the stuff that's happened to you along the twisting road of your life—good and bad

Empiezo a preguntarme si no me habré equivocado contigo, lamentable criatura. Tienes que aprender que todo aquello que puede comprarse con una cierta cantidad de dinero no es realmente importante.

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Gayle Forman

And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.

How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be? How can I come this far and not be brave?

Ponekad ti donosiš odluke u životu, a ponekad se odluke donesu same.

What about my parents?" "What about your parents?" "I can't let them down." "Even if it means letting yourself down? Which I doubt they'd want for you.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. Does that make any sense?

He said that earlier, about accidents, about never know which one is just a kink in the road and which one is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing until it's already happened.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. Does

What if Shakespeare had it wrong? What if Shakespeare—and Hamlet—were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you..." she trails off.