Quotes About Choices

Husbands were to be avoided in the pre-thirty years. There was always time for marriage and children; was the common refrain. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.

Some days I wake up and think, How did I get here? It's like one day, you just realize you're not young anymore, and you already made your choices, and now it's too late to change anything.

Life turns on the decisions we make, the single moments that transform everything.

I would tell you that the things we do in life can be mistakes, but the road we find ourselves on never is.

It's not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.

Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to.

But in life, Emily, for every path you decide to walk down, there's a path you've decided to turn away from. Each fork in the road leads us further from where we began. And one cannot look back. Only forward. Otherwise, you'll get stuck standing in place.

Hope non puoi affrontare la vita rispettando tutte le regole e facendo tutto quello che ci si aspetta da te senza pensare a te stessa. È così che ci si sveglia a ottant'anni e ci si rende conto di essersi lasciati sfuggire tutte le occasioni della vita.»

Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.

We all make mistakes. But life goes on, and we can always become better. It's not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.

all make mistakes. But life goes on, and we can always become better. It's not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.

It was the war that kept us apart. The world went mad, and your grandfather was no more responsible for the outcome than I was, or than Rose was. We all made our choices. We all had to live with our regrets.

Maybe in the end you can't run from who you are without destroying your life.

It isn't what characteristics, what traits you've inherited from your parents that make you who you are. It's the choices you make, Henry, that decide what kind of person you become.

There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will.

Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

Boys with no self-control become men behind bars" -Crystal

The story (...) suggests that we can't help caring about the traditions of "the West" because they are ours: in fact, the opposite is true. They are only ours if we care about them. A culture of liberty, tolerance, and rational inquiry: that *would* be a good idea. But these values represent choices to make, not tracks laid down by a Western destiny.

unless you've got a thing for women with stratospheric IQ's and abysmal taste in men. It'd taken her a long time to recognize that she consistently chose males who didn't see her only their own reflection in her. Once she figured that out she started to regain a measure of her self respect..

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

Life is about choices and their choices determine you.

We are the fruits harvested of the choices we plant.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.

We may say, vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we traveled the road twice over, I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them.