Quotes About Choices

Porque no hay una forma adecuada de planificar la vida ni tampoco de vivirla: sólo un montón de formas inadecuadas.

It's not an unusual American story. Just as there's no right way to plan a life and no right way to live one—only plenty of wrong ways.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

Cosas que hiciste. Cosas que nunca hiciste. Cosas que soñaste. Al cabo de un largo tiempo se juntan todas.

for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret.

The first misconception is that it is possible to avoid influencing people's choices.

The more choices you give people, the more help with decision making you need to provide.

No matter is too complex for the healing impact of divine mind. Divine mind arranges everything to its highest order. What lies within you knows how to act and when to act. Tuned to divine mind, you have an unshakable inner clarity that makes proper and appropriate choices. Your good is assured.

Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them, we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are rendered conscious. Each day, each life, is a series of choices, and as we use the lens of writing to view our lives, we see our choices.

Writing is making choices, and the choices we make can be generic, which will cost us our reader's faith, or specific, which will gain our reader's trust. Detail allows us to communicate precisely what we mean.

every relationship contains within it the ghosts, or the shadows, of all the other relationships it isn't. All the abandoned alternatives, the forgotten choices, the lives you could have led but didn't and haven't.

You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is, you get fat

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less and suffer the less?

Many artists live with the shadow version of themselves. Unawareness of how things might have been if they have done this and not that. If life had made this choice for them rather than that. The road not taken remains at the back of the mind. For some their shadow exists as an external presence, for others an inner haunting.

John thought himself irresponsible, but surely women were a safer addiction than gambling.

Rhys told himself that everything came with a price. He'd made a difficult choice years ago to regain all he had, and some days he could convince himself that life was like war: bitter, desperate choices were often made in the name of survival, and some inevitably survived at the expense of others.

Sometimes the only choices we have, even the ones made out of love, isolate us.

We're all trapped in a net of consequences, condemned to paths outside our control. It's the way of things.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

We all take our own ways. We all make our own choices, for good or ill.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

Iš vis? civilizacijos išradim? ?iabuviai daugiausia vertina degtukus, dvirat? ir šautuv?, jei jais žavisi, ta?iau ir j? nedvejodami atsisakys, jei tik užeis kalba apie karv?.

then tossed the coat into the water. "Hurst! That's a perfectly good coat!" "Yes, and I have a perfectly good life. One of those two things is not replaceable.

You'd leave the farm? I asked. He nodded. You'd leave school?