Quotes About Choices

Life is a mortal maze...

Don't trade your life for just an empty hourglass.

He that plants thorns shall not gather roses.

I've been shopping all my life and still have nothing to wear.

One of the great dangers of our time is the illusion that moral obligations are somehow weaker if they're not chosen. We are blessed with the freedom to make choices that people in most times and places don't get to make. The special temptation of living in a society where we have personal liberties is the seductive idea that obligations are less binding, or not binding at all, if we came under them through birth or other circumstances beyond our control.

It was Augustine who famously said, "Love God, and do what you will," and coming from a former hedonist like Augustine, you might expect that to be a license for bad behavior. But what he meant, very simply, was this: If you love God completely and totally, if your values are God-values, then the choices you make will tend to be in tune with His will for your life.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple. You are healthy or you are sick. You are faithful to your wife or you aren't. You are alive or you are dead. I am alive.

faith becomes the acceptance of our power as a directive force in creation. It is this unified perspective that allows us to move forward in life, trusting that through our prayers we have planted the seeds of new possibilities. Our faith allows us to rest assured that our prayers are accomplished. In this knowledge, our prayers become expressions of thanks, giving life to our choices as they blossom in our world.

So beware. For good or ill, a mature, enthusiastic delight is extremely contagious. This is where's God's Word cuts to the heart of the matter. Foolish companions will induce one another to try out and ultimately to 'study' foolish delights. Skateboarding and computer games come to mind. So do drugs and alcohol.

The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.

Would you ever buy chocolate with DDT? How about Cheerios with arsenic? Not very likely!

On rencontre sa destinée, souvent par de chemins qu'on prend pour l'éviter. LA FONTAINE

Il y a des moments dans l'existence où une porte s'ouvre et où votre vie dérape dans la lumière. De rares instants où quelque chose se déverrouille en vous. Vous flottez en apesanteur, vous filez sur une autoroute sans radar. Les choix deviennent limpides, les réponses remplacent les questions, la peur cède la place à l'amour. Il faut avoir connu ces moments. Ils durent rarement.

We think that some ties are so strong that they can withstand anything, but it's not true. When trust is broken, weariness sets in. Then poor choices, the deceptive lure of seduction and sorry twists of fate, all conspire to kill off love. In this type of unusual contest, the chances of winning are slim, more the exception than the rule.

Vrijeme prolazi, a mi prolazimo s njim i naj?eš?e radimo ono što možemo, a ne ono što bismo htjeli. Ostatak ?ini sudbina, a sre?a povremeno doda poneko zrnce soli. To je sve.

les folies que l'on regrette le plus sont celles que l'on pas commises quand on en avait l'occasion

Wir alle haben uns wenigstens einmal die Frage gestellt: Wenn wir die Möglichkeit hätten, das Rad der Zeit zurückzudrehen, würden wir unser Leben anders leben? Und wenn wir unser Leben noch einmal leben dürften, welche Fehler würden wir korrigieren? Welchen Schmerz, welches Schuldgefühl und welches Bedauern würden wir uns ersparen? Würden wir es wagen, unserem Leben einen neuen Sinn zu geben? Um was zu werden? Um wohin zu gehen? Und mit wem?

Oft trifft man sein Schicksal auf Wegen, die man eingeschlagen hatte, um ihm zu entgehen. (Jean de La Fontaine)

La vie nous met parfois dans des situations dont nous ne pouvons nous extraire qu'en renonçant aux valeurs que nous défendons...

Ima trenutaka u životu kada se jedna vrata otvore i kada vam život sklizne u svjetlost. Rijetki trenuci kada se nešto u vama otvori. Lebdite u bestežinskom stanju, jurite autoputem bez radara. Izbori postaju jasni i jednostavni, odgovori zamjenjuju pitanja, strah ustupa mjesto ljubavi. Treba iživjeti ovakve trenutke. Rijetko potraju.

La felicidad sobre el campo, el mayor número de decisiones correctas, como en la vida, parte del equilibro.

Guillermo Arriaga

What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.