Quotes About Choices

Our health is more about our actions than our age

What we love will either take us to greatness or to ruin

Life isn't a game of chess after all.A game of chess involves so very many more possibilities.

Life is very simple. It's just either dead meat or moving meat.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Man naar ogsaa at dø engang, og det er Synd, hvis man saa har forsømt at leve.

Events do not reflect God's choices. They happen at random, and randomness is another name for chaos… And chaos is evil; not wrong, not malevolent, but evil nonetheless.

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

The experience of birth is vast. It is a diverse tapestry woven by cultural customs, shaped in personal choices, affected by biological factors, marked by political circumstances. Yet the nature of birth itself prevails in elegant design of simple complexity.

If the dollars you lose in taxes are important to you, then what about the dollars you may be spending to perpetuate boxes you could get out of?

One person devotes his life to helping the poor. Another one lies and steals. Still another person tries to create better products and services for which he hopes to be paid handsomely. One woman devotes herself to her husband and children. Another seeks a career as a singer. In every case, the basic motivation has been the same. Each person is doing what he believes will bring him happiness. What varies between them is the means each has chosen to gain his happiness.

Instead of going back to teaching, she began to do housework because it paid more.

My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!

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In fact, you chose him or her, in part, because he or she recreated the same difficulties you had in childhood.

many paths in the forest have chosen me. I go on any.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

We should also not expect that men and women will make identical choices, or be driven to excel at identical things, or even, perhaps, be motivated by the same goals. To ignore our differences and demand uniformity is a different kind of sexism. Differences between the sexes are a reality, and while they can be cause for concern, they are also very often a strength, and we ignore them at our peril.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.

These choices we make, they seem so small-- they're made in a split second and yet they can have a ripple effect for years.

or burying it, not by keeping it secret, but by reminding themselves, and everyone else, to choose love, choose openness, to think and be calm. That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right or wrong. Middle ways. Ways beyond.

What a maddening life it is, to be committed to a way of living while also remaining open to all possibilities.

I think ... that I when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I lived, the breath I breathed.