Quotes About Choices

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

My Mom and Dad had six kids, and four of the six were going down the same road I was.

The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

My lifestyle determines my deathstyle.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.

Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day

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all begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and "unsurrounding" yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

Isn't it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you "deserve" the wrong ones? It's highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

So what do I do with the rest of my time? he thought. Live rent-free with my parents, write in my notebooks, go out dancing, catch a buzz, get laid? It doesn't sound so bad. But what if I only have, say, five more years to live?

You're going to come to a lot of intersections in your life, Natalie, roads and otherwise, and you can't always just turn around. You have to summon the courage to go forward.

We are not dissatisfied with our choices and with what life has given us, but when we meet we both have a curious and not unpleasant impression that a veil, a breath, a throw of the dice deflected us onto two divergent paths, which were not ours.

Non valeva la pena di avere vent'anni se non ci si permetteva il lusso di sbagliare strada

I cannot stop anyone from making wrong choices. I can only help them make the right ones." There was deep sadness in Ruwach's tone, rooted in love, as if he would have done anything to prevent Brianna from suffering the consequences of her choice.

Desperate people do desperate things. You cannot be one of them. You must be better.

Better broke than dead.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road--the one less traveled by--offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.