Quotes About Choices

Sometimes, we rejoice and our hearts almost burst with gratitude, but at other times, we make gut-level choices to thank Him during painful seasons of life.

I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

I may not own any carpets, but you've got to get your priorities right when it comes to life's luxuries. In my case it was music, microwave and movies—probably in that order.

Human history is littered with might-have-beens.

All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.

Sometimes being an adult doesn't prevent you from making terrible choices

It's too easy to let good stuff slip through your hands while you're busy grasping at big, impossible dreams that might wreck you.

Maybe that's the point: he was just a typical guy in a typical place, and he made choices, and each choice changed him, and each change began to close off other possibilities, seal shut other rooms, exclude other people he might become, one by one, until he could no longer be anything but what he was.

We have choices between living life to its fullest and trying to live life to its longest,

Leaders search very deep for their identity. A great identity yields great possibilities in life. A great identity gives greater action choices. A search for our true identity is a kind of talent search within our own selves. There are talents that are latent. They sleep within us as seeds of possibilities. When we discover and nurture these seeds they grow and flower. This flowering is a leader's true vocation.

We all make a multitude of choices in our lives. Some of them are small and of little consequence. Others can change the entire path of the future.

The years between 20 and 30 are full of all sorts of dangers, full of great danger, yea, the danger of sin and death. —Vincent to Theo, early September

a change in our food choices—a shift in what we eat each day—holds the timeless genetic secret not only to your health status, but to the health of generations to come—indeed, our very evolution as humans.

Yes, there had been many times I called my daughters back to zip up their coats. All the same, I knew they would rather be cold and free.

That night, in the deep heat of Greece, devoured by mosquitoes and reminiscences, I was thinking about all the doors I had closed in my life and what it would have taken to keep them ajar.

There are vertical swimmers and horizontal swimmers, she said. I myself have sometimes thought I will become a vertical swimmer. No one says I have to do the third act of my life. It is always nasty. If I become ill in old age, I have not ruled it out.

We all have alternate lives we might have lived had we made different decisions, including decisions about whom to marry. I

things you do are the things you do. Nothing can change the facts. Others might lie or distort those things, but they never go away. Your choices, your actions are forever. You leave a footprint that can be followed if someone is determined to look closely enough.

Nothing can change the facts. Others might lie or distort those things, but they never go away. Your choices, your actions are forever. You leave a footprint that can be followed if someone is determined to look closely enough.

Terlalu banyak pilihan bisa memusingkan, tapi keterbatasan pilihan adalah penjara.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.

But first, become aware of the choices that you are making in every moment. The more you become aware of your choices, the more you will make choices that are spontaneously correct — both for you and for those around you.