Life Choices Quotes

“/A weekend toward the end of September, the bell above the door rang and there he was in the shop. Same old feeling in my guts.
I’ll go if you want me to, he said.
I smiled, I was so fucking happy to see him.
You’ve only just got here, you twat, I said. Now give us a hand with this, and he took the other end of the trestle table and moved it over to the wall. Pub? I said.
He grinned. And before I could say anything else he put his arms around me. And everything he couldn’t say in our room in France was said in that moment. I know, I said. I know. I’d already accepted I wasn’t the key to unlock him.
She’d come later.
It took a while to acknowledge the repercussions of that time. How the numbness in my fingertips traveled to my heart and I never even knew it.
I had crushes, I had lovers, I had orgasms. My trilogy of desire, I liked to call it, but I’d no great love after him, not really. Love and sex became separated by a wide river and one the ferryman refused to cross. The psychiatrist liked that analogy. I watched him write it down. Chuckle, chuckle, his pen across the page.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“The emptiness in our lives is due to the ‘absence of all the right things,’ and the ‘presence of all the wrong things.’ And if there’s some sort of silver-lining to be found in feeling empty, it’s that we’ve been successful at doing both of the above.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Destiny is not fate, it's navigation.”
― Richie Norton

“The multiverse exists because every choice we make creates a fork in the road, which leads into a parallel world.”
― Blake Crouch

“Your future is as bright as you want it to be.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“I now stood at a crossroads, and I didn't dare look back at the road behind me—the road littered with monotony, complacency and other people's expectations.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“...she thought, brightly,This is the worst life decision I have ever made!And she marveled at herself for a while, at the mystery of this person who'd just done this bizarre, inexplicable thing.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

“We can choose to go wherever the winds of life happen to blow us, or we can intentionally chart a course that will blow us away. And as I ponder that thought, I realize that there are very few decisions in life whose destinations are so frighteningly opposite.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When we give our attention and love to anything in life, it is a significant offering. We only have so much time. What we spend it on and who we give it to will determine the course of our life.”
― Donna Goddard, Faith

“It can be tough to recognize that you need to leave something behind to be able to get where you want to go. Sometimes the reason we have carried something in our pack for so long is that someone we trusted told us we would need it. Even when it has become obvious the advice given us does not match our experience, it can be difficult to reconcile the advice with the reality of our situation. Consequently, many will continue carrying unnecessary burdens. While this added weight might be manageable walking on flat ground when the terrain becomes more demanding and the pace more important, it will become increasingly difficult to keep up. This is why an approach to life that worked at one point does not always work at another point. If you are seeking to maximize your life, you cannot do so without making tough choices.”
― Nathan Mellor, Sleeping Giants: Authentic Stories and Insights for Building a Life That Matters

“Wherever the road leads you, always know that it is the best one for you because you cant keep choosing the road that’s not meant for you.”
― Raihan Zubir

“Robert Frost wrote about “two roads diverg[ing] in a wood” and taking “the one less traveled.” But, in Molly’s case, both roads continued on to equally devastating destinations, even if the specifics were different. Which of the two paths would you choose if one went off a cliff and the other into quicksand?”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“At some point, we need to be honest with ourselves and do what excites us instead of what looks good on paper.”
― Terry McMillan, I Almost Forgot About You

“People are going to judge you regardless of what you do, Sal. Don't listen to what they have to say because at the end of the day, you're the one that has to live with your choices and where they take you. No one else is going to live your life for you.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“I didn't think I would end up here."
"Me neither.”
― Jennifer L. Holm, Sunny Side Up

“Our choices allow us to shape our own soul personalities.”
― Nozer Kanga, Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment

“In the late afternoon of their life, a precautious person outgrows the fulsome myths that fueled their impressionable youth. Perceived truths of a fawning youth no longer appear self-evident. A previously established cultural script and its lavish adornments that guided me to the crucial midpoint were no longer relevant. Impetuous acts of spontaneity that demarked my boisterous and animated youth were now irresponsible affections. When I aged and encountered the red claws of a carnivorous existence, I grew weary of the bone meal journey into the unknown. I was suspicious of other people, mistrustful of my personal abilities, and contemptuous of my nascent life plan. New truths must be uncovered. I must fuse an innovative philosophy out of the modest pinpoints of experience garnered in traversing the rocky terrain of living a thespian’s stage-managed existence. Reaching a critical juncture in life, I need to make sense of the past, come to terms with the present, take a cold-eyed assessment of my future prospects, and decide what to do.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Relationships matter. Who they are with and in what form they manifest is secondary to the quality of the relationship. Is it truthful? Is it life-changing? Are we present? Is the other person “there”? Does it engage us? Does it help us grow? Relationships ultimately teach us love but we need to be available to learn it.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“He either denounced the two of them to his father and the Elders of York or he stood for the words he'd been taught and believed in since he'd first picked up a sword - to live an honorable life as befitted a Rose of York.
Edward”
― Abby Gordon, Justice of the Root

“Own your life regardless of the frauds.⁣”
― Richie Norton

“We are not too young or old to live our dreams...but we do act out our mindset.”
― Richie Norton

“I left my husband to build a life with Abby for the same reason I left booze to become a mother eighteen years ago. Because suddenly I was able to imagine a truer, more beautiful existence for myself than the one I was living.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“It’s very possible that you one day end up feeling like there’s no need for you to date after all. Maybe you won’t need anything other than your job and a hobby. Maybe living with a pet and going out with your girlfriends every other weekend will be more than enough companionship for you.”
― Yasmina Diallo, From Catwalk To Freedom

“Learn how to ask and choose to listen.
When it comes to other people lives, don’t make assumptions, but ask them and choose to listen to them. Choose to stop projecting your thoughts, life experiences, feelings or what you went through to other peoples lives.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“saat orang mengambil keputusan, berarti dia menceburkan diri dalam arus deras yang akan membawanya ke tempat-tempat yang tak pernah dibayangkannya ketika dia pertama-tama mengambil keputusan tersebut”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I have come to that fork in the road where one must decide how to live and how to die. No wonder I am agitated to the point of falling into state of irreversible catatonia. Self-doubt and apprehension, along with intensifying self-loathing and fatigue beseech me to stop questing. Why am I am plagued by the dueling dynamism that binds my existence? Does the ball of fears and doubts, and chain of self-hatred and personal exhaustion, which manacle me, inhibit other people?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Let’s all step back for a moment and reflect upon our life choices once again, perhaps pausing to take solace in the fact that no combination of events in our lives led us to injecting an extra-strength blood-testicle daiquiri under our skin.”
― Timothy Verstynen, Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain

“I do not wish to be told what to do or where to go.”
― Sela Ordaz, The Thousand Routes Tree

“Don’t choose to make your life choices, everyone else life standards. Choose to do what you love and allow others to also choose what they love, rather than you choosing for them to love what you love.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Healing was not straightforward and was much easier said than done. Losing loved ones is one of the most overwhelming experiences of being human—nothing compares to it. Nevertheless, life marches on whether we walk along with it, and whether we choose to die inside or move on is up to us.”
― Lisa Dianne McInnes, The Majewski Curse