Quotes About Choices

Mom always likes to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones.

We all take different paths in life. But its the way you live your life that matters.

The thing about our lives is that. We have to accept that people make their own choices, and we're not responsible for those choices, even if they're our family.

We all have a past. We all have made choices that maybe wasn't the best ones. None of us are completely innocent, but we all get a fresh start every day to be a better person than we were yesterday.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today. So, you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets.

Be wise today so you don't regret the choices you didn't make and regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.

Today Lord I'm going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others.

Physical death is only one form of dying. There are other forms of dying: We die whenever fear governs our choices. We die when we sacrifice growth for security. We die whenever we choose a convenient certainty over an inconvenient mystery.

Later—much later, if at all—we reluctantly come to recognize that those choices we made were reflective of our character, our limited field of vision, and our presumption that we knew enough to know enough.

Wouldn't a woman who paid attention to her dreams, and tried to adopt choices based on their direction and value system, be successful, even if she were departing further and further from the approval of her family?

Fate is what is given to us; destiny is what we are summoned to become. In the interplay of the two, human character plays a role. Hubris, or the fantasy that we know enough to know enough, seduces us toward choices that lead to unintended consequences. Hamartia, the failure to see clearly enough, to see humbly enough, is a lens through which we imperfectly envision the world, unavoidably distorting and reductive, but convincing at the moment nonetheless.

You put me in mind of a man who spent his last cent on Ex-Lax and forgot the pay toilet cost a dime.

how many decisions did you make that at the time seemed inconsequential but down the track had enormous influence on either you or others?

I also figuredd out that what we call our destiny is usually determined by two or three casual decision which on the surface seem about as important as spitting your gum through a sewer grate.

She notes how advances in brain imaging technology prove that people's brains are wired to overestimate risk, exaggerate its consequences, and underestimate their ability to handle it. Accordingly, fear about what people don't want to happen drives their choices more often than a commitment to what they wish to see.

Just because you toast marshmallows with a kid on a camping trip doesn't mean he'll become a Boy Scout.

Booze, he thought. I chose booze over my Moonflower.

We all make choices. We all have to live with them.

Don't live a life you don't want to talk about.

Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda.

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture.

I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that's what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don't like because they don't have any other options.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

When I started playing, I saw a lot of people who were 45 and unhappy. I told myself I'd never be in a position where I had to play all the time. And I haven't been.