Quotes About Choices

Viele Wege viele wege kreuzen sich in mir und gehe ich immer mehrere straßen zugleich. ich bin arm. aber es kommt mir vor: dann wäre ich reich wenn unter diesen wegen einer ein ausweg wäre. viele wege kreuzen sich in mir und ich gehe immer mehrere straßen zugleich. ich bin arm. aber es kommt mir vor: dann wäre ich ärmer wenn unter diesen wegen einer ein ausweh wäre.

The swiping culture lures us with infinite possibilities, but it also exerts a subtle tyranny. The constant awareness of ready alternatives invites unfavorable comparisons, weakens commitment, and prevents us from enjoying the present moment.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Trust and truth are intimate companions, but we must also acknowledge that there are many kinds of truth. What are the useful truths, for us as individuals and as couples, in light of the choices we are likely to make? Some kinds of knowledge bring clarity; others just give us visions to torture ourselves with.

THE quality of your life will, to a large extent, be decided by with whom you elect to spend your time.

Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.

Piccole decisioni prese per prova ci portano ad altre decisioni e a mano a mano che il tempo passa e che le decisioni si sommano, la nostra libertà nel prendere decisioni è sempre più limitata per colpa dei legami che ci sono sempre tra una decisione e l'altra.

Men choosing abuse need to be connected to choices. They are not powerless. Take them back to the beginnings of their relationship. They would have rarely used violence at the beginning of the relationship as their partner would have left them.

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

There are so many doors to walk through in life, you can't be afraid of all of them, even if you know one of them might be your last.

The left tended to think people's private lives should be their own, even if they made choices traditional Christian society regarded as immoral; but that people's working lives, from how much they earned to where they worked, were fit for State interference. The right had a reverse view, that the State should uphold traditional moral codes with the full rigour of the law, but keep out of the economy as much as possible.

I'm wary of too-convenient explanations or mental boogeymen that exonerate us from being lazy and making bad choices, but I can't deny that the evidence is growing that a number of behaviors and diseases may not be due to defects in our genes, but to the survival mechanisms of the biome within us.

We all pay our dues. Sometimes that price is integrity. Sometimes the tax is marrying for money instead of love. Sometimes the ticket is for following a dream other than your own.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

It's incredible,' the Witcher smiled hideously, 'how much my neutrality outrages everybody. How it makes me subject to offers of pacts and agreements, offers of collaboration, lectures about the necessity to make choices and join the right side.

Andrzej Sapkowski

What would you think if I told you that, yes, your bad choices and decisions have had a part in your ending up under this pier, but beyond that, under this pier is exactly where you should be in order for a future to occur that you can't even imagine at this point?

Your choices, your words, and every move you make are permanent. Life is lived in indelible ink, boy. Wake up. You're making little bitty brushstrokes every minute you walk around on this earth. And with those tiny brushstrokes, you are creating the painting that your life will ultimately become—a masterpiece or a disaster.

You are where you are because of your thinking. Your thinking dictates your decisions. Decisions are choices.

If it is true that your choices determine your destiny, and if the truth is that your thinking determines your choices, then it is, in fact, your thinking that determines your destiny.