Quotes About Choices

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

Your time, energy, and money always go to what's important to you.

You need organization to organize your thoughts to optimize your success, structure to secure your stability and strength to make your best choices, and focus because where focus goes, success grows.

No me importa lo que digan por ahi, Cali -replicó Tabit -. Todos tenemos un pasado; lo que verdaderamente cuenta es lo que somos ahora, y lo que queremos ser en el futuro. Lo que hayas hecho antes... es asunto tuyo; es tu vida y no tengo derecho a entrometerme en ella.

Il futuro è come un fiume, così largo e imponente che non si può cambiare né invertirne il corso. Tuttavia, è formato da una miriade di piccoli affluenti che invece è possibile deviare. Puoi cambiare il tuo futuro, perché molte tue azioni dipendono soltanto da te.

Founder Rouse wanted to challenge a lot of ingrained biases in our culture; taste was not among them. He gave people the ticky-tacky houses they wanted. The only real choices were brick or wood siding, a Baltimore or a D.C. prefix for your phone.

Not only the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but Wise potato chips and Utz, Little Debbie's and Hostess. Duron and the Hechinger store brand of spray paint.

No roll in the hay is worth losing what I've got.

What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

I'd heard a saying about meth, that it took you down one of three roads: jail, the psych ward, or death.

Adeline, you make things so much harder for yourself than you have to," she said. "Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.

they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on.

I think if she'd been more careful this whole thing could've been avoided," he said stiffly. "I mean, use a condom. How hard is that? A buck at the drugstore and this whole thing would never have happened.

I HAVE MEASURED OUT MY LIFE WITH COFFEE SPOONS. DO I DARE TO EAT A PEACH? DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?

when personally affected by the issues, even idealists often end up making selfish choices with far-reaching effects. It's human nature,

What would she have done if she'd been in that situation? Mrs. Richardson would ask herself this question over and over, before Michael's call and for weeks—and months—after. Each time, faced with this impossible choice, she came to the same conclusion. I would never have let myself get into that situation, she told herself. I would have made better choices along the way.

Yawning gaps of time when she could have been anywhere, doing anything.

Our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Perhaps she is right, that there is no reason to suffering, no fair dealing when it comes to meting out bliss and pain. There are just choices, and the echoes of those choices.

The choices we make, make us. We

Your whole life is a chain of choices- your choices