Quotes About Choices

April 13, or a November 2? Living like this

An den Scheidewegen des Lebens stehen keine Wegweiser.

Elus olulisi otsuseid on tegelikult kolm: kellega koos kavatsete oma elu elada, kuidas te kavatsete seda elada ja mille nimel.

Happy is measuring your life against the options and not wanting to change it. It's getting the best of a series of bargains, bad or otherwise.

But at some point, a full-grown woman has to be accountable for her own self, and for the choices she's made.

The antagonists who evoke the most emotion are the ones who could have been heroes if they'd made better choices.

We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye.

The thing about hiking the Pacific Coast Trial, the thing that was so profound to me that summer -- and yet also, like many things, so very simple -- was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. How there was no escape or denial. (69)

The thing about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, the thing that was so profound to me that summer—and yet also, like most things, so very simple—was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. How there was no escape or denial. No numbing it down with a martini or covering it up with a roll in the hay.

The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives.

People die because they want who they want. They do all kinds of crazy, stupid, sweet, tender, amazing, self-destructive things. You aren't going to make anyone "see the light and realize that what they're doing is wrong." You just aren't.

Every life, Tranströmer writes, "has a sister ship," one that follows "quite another route" than the one we ended up taking.

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.

Some problems in the world seem to exist solely for women. Like not having anything to wear.

He went to the board to write lots of Greek symbols and calculus equations. The course had started with cute little things like how people choose between tea and biscuits. It had moved on to scary equations that would dominate exams. The class took mad notes. Kanyashree wrote so hard I could feel the seismic vibrations from her pen's nib.

If a father buys his child toffees instead of books for school, it may make for a happy child. But does it make a good father?

Being a meat eater is really expensive, even if you don't count the cost of chemo.

What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

Drinking and driving: there are stupider things, but it's a very short list.

You booze, you cruise, you lose.

…Love is the sun of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

No drugs, doctors, or treatments will cure life style