Quotes About Choices

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get next.

Wenn er irgendwann einmal ein Buch der verpassten Chancen schreiben würde, dann würden die letzten beiden Tage darin einen besonderen Platz einnehmen. Gleich hinter dem Kapitel Gesammelte Dummheiten.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

Cel ce lasa sa ii scape dragostea vietii sale va ajunge singur cu regretele sale si toate suspinele lumii nu ii pot aduce alinarea sufletului.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

The value of a life is determined not by its length, but by what you do with it.

same with money—what matters is not the abilities themselves but how we use them.

Everyone knows that physicists are concerned with the laws of the universe and have the audacity sometimes to think they have discovered the choices God made when He created the universe in thus and such a pattern. Mathematicians are even more audacious. What they feel they discover are the laws that God Himself could not avoid having to follow.

So many things that might have been," Edgar said. "My life – I'm afraid – will be recorded as a series of things that are, and better things that might have been. My heart is sore, and I have never felt so weary.

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

You can tell a man's character from his choices

Johnny Watters bends down, sponge in his hand, tongue in your ear, he whispers, "How shall we live, Brian? How shall we live?

networks, in your brain. He remarked, "Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact . . . moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work, we choose who we will be the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form on our material selves."2

Nine times out of ten, people pick the wrong food. No, it's not the sugar (GI = 68), it's not the candy bar (GI = 55), and it's not the banana (GI = 54). It's the whole-wheat bread at a whopping GI of 71, putting it on par with white bread (so

Brain disease can be largely prevented through the choices you make in life.

Un individuo humano puede elegir no consumir savia de palma, no comer carne de chimpancés, no montar las pocilgas a la sombra de los mangos, no limpiar la tráquea de los caballos con las manos desnudas, no tener sexo sin protección con prostitutas, no compartir aguja, no toser sin taparse la boca, no subirse con síntomas a un avión o no poner a las gallinas y a los patos en el mismo corral.

We all make our deals with life. We do it invisibly, sometimes unconsciously, and alone, without benefit of collective bargaining, We come to terms.

But are we really to believe that a cup of Coke would be as healthy as a large apple (both with about 100 calories), if we drank it with a serving of Metamucil and a multivitamin pill?

No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die.

What about people with high cholesterol who keep eating French fries? Do we say a disease is not biological because it's influenced by behavior? No one starts out hoping to become an addict; they just like drugs. No one starts out hoping for a heart attack; they just like fried chicken.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

The way we live has less to do with individual choices and more to do with the general bent of our society than many of us realize. We forget that we don't need everything.

The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.