Quotes About Choices

In charting one's course in life, it is important never to forget that many things that cannot be called wrong or evil are nevertheless not good for us.

That spiritual place within us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed.

Things good and bad will happen to us, of course. But what our life amounts to, at least for those who reach full age, is largely, if not entirely, a matter of what we become within.

The spirit is able to consider alternatives, and God prompts us to have an interest in what is better and best.

Now just think of what the quality of life and character must be in a person who would routinely interrupt sacred rituals to pursue reconciliation with a fellow human being. What kind of thought life, what feeling tones and moods, what habits of body and mind, what kinds of deliberations and choices would you find in such a person? When you answer these questions, you will have a vision of the true "rightness beyond" that is at home in God's kingdom of power and love. Of

Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.

Sometimes, circumstances raise impossible decisions. -William Pickering

As we get closer to critical hour, we will make critical decisions.

Las decisiones del pasado determinan nuestro presente.

Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.

The way your life plays out depends on which dominoes you chose to push over and which ones you leave alone.

Your sense of worth or deservedness shapes your life by creating tendencies. If you feel worthy and deserving, you tend to make productive choices. ("The world is my oyster.") If you feel unworthy and undeserving, you tend to make destructive or limiting choices. ("Beggars can't be choosers.")

In everyday life pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional—a by-product of poor choices.

In so doing, it's important to place responsibility where it truly belongs by acknowledging that: You aren't responsible for what your parents did to you, they are. You are responsible for what you do with your life now, your parents aren't.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made

Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, Even if you don't want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen correctly. Freedom says, Even not to choose is to choose. Freedom says, So long as you are aware of your freedom, you are going to experience the discomfort that freedom brings. Freedom says, You're on your own. Deal with it.

Los sentimientos desempeñan un papel fundamental para navegar a través de la incesante corriente de las decisiones personales que la vida nos obliga a tomar.

some studies have found that pessimists smoke and drink more, and exercise less, than optimists, and are generally much more careless about their health

While the world often confronts us with an unwieldy array of choices (How should you invest your retirement savings? Whom should you marry?), the emotional learning that life has given us (such as the memory of a disastrous investment or a painful breakup) sends signals that streamline the decision by eliminating some options and highlighting others at the outset.

In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.

I am not only a thing, but also a way of being-one of many ways- and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

Part of the great challenge of living is defining yourself in your moment, of seizing the opportunities that you are given, and of making the very best choices you can.

14. Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.