Life Choices Quotes

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

“Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Encounters may help us discover our inner world, reveal us to ourselves and unshackle us from prejudices, but still, they can disrupt our thinking patterns when they make us too dependent or needy. However, if they give voice to our life choices and offer inner freedom, they inspire and enlighten us. (" I seek you ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“The worst decisions in life we make are always the one we make out of fear.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Betrayal

“You already made the choice, you are simply here to walk it.”
― L.J Vanier

“Whether it is in your work, or your relationships, or your food choices, or your interaction with any part of nature, or anything that you think, speak, or do, mindfulness has the power to align you with expressing your highest Self, for your personal and our collective highest good.
Via mindfulness we can make the choices today, that will pre-pave the desired outcomes for all of our tomorrows. Via mindfulness we put ourselves in the flow of life, where life is no longer a series of "good" and "bad" moments, but about living with ease, contentment, wellbeing, and inner peace. Ultimately mindfulness requires action, with the first step being to make mindfulness a priority in your life.”
― Evita Ochel

“The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Choose opportunities that align with your vision. Don't sell yourself short. You could get stuck for too long on the wrong road.”
― Cristina Imre

“It's not the challenges we might face or the potential fading of affection that haunts us. It's the obliteration of our potential selves, of what we could have become, of what we could have shared.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“Better to stop one paddle short than one too far.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, A Lancaster County Christmas

“Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life - for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes - I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently free.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Too often folks get caught up in a false dichotomy, an either this or that trap. There’s usually at least a third good option waiting to be found. -- Craig in Flower Girl A Novel”
― Merida Johns, Flower Girl A Novel

“you don't need to justify your choices to anyone. What would your life be like if you gave yourself permission to be everything you wanted to be?”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don't Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up

“Destiny is shaped by thoughts, influenced by choices, and executed by hands.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Our brains are not the wisest parts of us. In the great moments of life, when a man decides upon an important step, his action is directed not so much by any clear knowledge of the right thing to do, as by an inner impulse (an instinct) - proceeding from the deepest foundations of his being.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Cuando un hombre no puede elegir, deja de ser hombre.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Unless you take control of your life, you will forever be a slave to others. The choice is yours.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“What we achieve or don’t achieve in our lives depends on our decisions. While some decisions open doors, others push us down into a pit of problems.”
― Dee Waldeck

“A positive attitude acts like a fork in the road, which effectively alters the course of your life for the better.”
― Dee Waldeck

“Try everything until you find your thing. Once you do, focus on your thing and ignore everything else.”
― Geoffrey Ocaya

“Just because it didn’t work doesn’t mean it was the wrong choice.
The world is full of probabilities, not certainties.
Find a game where the probabilities favor you and keep taking shots.”
― James Clear

“[Silent Messages]
I’ve lost track of all the times
I have passed by married couples or lovers
Dinning at fancy upscale restaurants in foreign cities
When the woman sitting across the table from her lover
Gives me that quick look
Conveying in a painful silence
That she no longer loves him,
That she wishes she were elsewhere…
And each time, I respond with an equally silent look:
Why are you there?
Why don’t you turn this dinner table of triviality on him,
And on everything that happened and is happening
And just walk away?

[Original poem published in Arabic on November 8, 2022 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako

“Mungkin saya tidak akan berhasil. Meskipun demikian, saya mempunyai kesempatan untuk mempraktikkan kebebasan saya menentukan pilihan.”
― Budi Darma, Olenka

“Akan tetapi, akhirnya saya harus menemukan. Tidak mungkin keadaan menjadikan saya objek kebetulan untuk selamanya. Pada suatu hari nanti, pasti keadaan akan memberi kelonggaran kepada saya untuk menjadi subjek.”
― Budi Darma, Olenka

“Did you ever think, child," she said, presently, "how much piecin' a quilt's like livin' a life? And as for sermons, why, they ain't, no better sermon to me than a patchwork quilt, and the doctrines is right there a heap plainer 'n they are in the catechism. Many a time I've set and listened to Parson Page preachin' about predestination and free-will, and I've said to myself, 'Well, I ain't never been through Centre College up at Danville, but if I could jest git up in the pulpit with one of my quilts, I could make it a heap plainer to folks than parson's makin' it with all his big words.' You see, you start out with jest so much caliker; you don't go to the store and pick it out and buy it, but the neighbors will give you a piece here -and a piece there, and you'll have a piece left every time you cut out a dress, and you take jest what happens to come. And that's like predestination. But when it comes to the cuttin' out, why, you're free to choose your own pattern. You can give the same kind o' pieces to two persons, and one'll make a 'nine-patch' and one'll make a 'wild-goose chase,' and there'll be two quilts made out o' the same kind o' pieces, and jest as different as they can be. And that is jest the way with livin'. The Lord sends us the pieces, but we can cut 'em out and put 'em together pretty much to suit ourselves, and there's a heap more in the cuttin' out and the sewin' than there is in the caliker.”
― Eliza Calvert Hall, Aunt Jane of Kentucky

“The company you keep can either fuel your flight or anchor your dreams. Choose to fly high.”
― Felecia Etienne

“It's entirely possible that every time we make a decision, there's a version of us out there somewhere who made a different choice. An infinite number of versions of ourselves are living out the consequences of every single possibility of our lives.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life