Life Choices Quotes

“In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I don’t believe in the Law of Attraction. There were things I wanted in my life that no amount of positive thinking was going to make it a reality for me. However, I have learned to believe in the Law of Tough Love. Life has thrown a dozen tragedies at me. I did what any Christian would do--prayed for the outcome I wanted, but God was tough and only gave me what I needed. I now realize that life is not about fulfilling a wish list; rather a need list. Good and bad experiences are on the horizon. How else does a person change, grow and evolve? And just like any warrior woman, I won’t simply survive-- but thrive!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Having totality means being capable of following" what is, "because" what is "is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of" what is.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“And I would tell him, so full of twentysomething wisdom, that life is almost never about choosing between one thing you really want and another thing you don't want at all. If you're lucky, and healthy, and live in a country where you have enough to eat and no fear that you're going to get shot when you walk out your door, life is an endless series of choosing between two things you want almost equally. And you have to evaluate and determine which awesome thing you want infinitesimally more, and then give up that other awesome thing you want almost exactly as much. You have to trade awesome for awesome. Everyone I knew, no matter what they chose, was at least a little in mourning for that other thing.”
― Kristin Newman, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Well, life isn't always what one likes.”
― Dalton Trumbo

“What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.”
― Laura Wright, Eternal Kiss

“How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever? Set sail to sea, but pulled off course by the light of golden treasure.”
― Metallica, Metallica - Death Magnetic Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords

“God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It's just life. You make what you can of it.”
― Karina Halle, Love, in English

“Ever wonder if you've done the right thing?" I asked him finally.
"Frequently," he replied. "Legalities notwithstanding, tonotwonder indicates a dangerous lack of awareness of the near-infinite array of choices presented by life. More tea?”
― Karen Lord, The Best of All Possible Worlds

“You might say that S. has only himself to blame, that it is entirely his choice to fight this fight, to live a life of vigilant somnolence or somnolent vigilantism, to allow himself to be satisfied with Sola in the margins of his manuscripts instead of in his arms, and you might be right. But you ought to understand, too, that there's an attrition that takes place inside, one in which options and choices and even desires are ground ever smaller until finally their existence can no longer be confirmed by observation or weight or displacement but only by faith. Until desire is a ghost.”
― Doug Dorst, S.

“When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.”
― Clayton Christensen

“Living your life through Gratitude, is not one of comparing how you are better than someone else; or Gratitude only for what you own or obtain or achieve. Living your life through Gratitude, is seeing that the world would be missing something very valuable if you were not in it.”
― Sumner Davenport

“Maybe in a way all living things are like flickering flames in a precarious night, always on the verge of being extinguished. Whether we kindle slowly but steadily, or go out in a brilliant burst of light and color, is our choice. Perhaps the most important choice we'll ever have.”
― Nenia Campbell, Bleeds My Desire

“ဘဝမှာ မိဘရယ် ၊ သားသမီးရယ် ၊ ညီအစ်ကိုမောင်နှမရယ် ၊ နောက်ဆုံးလင်မယားဆိုတာတောင် မတော်တဆ ကြုံတွေ့ကြတာမို့ တစ်ယောက်နဲ့တစ်ယောက် မတန်တဆ မမျှော်မှန်းထိုက်ဘူး ၊ မလိုချင် မတောင်းခံထိုက်ဘူး ။ ပေးသမျှ ကိုသာ ကျေးဇူးတတင် ယူထိုက်တယ်။”
― Kyi Aye, ကေဖွဲ့ဆိုသီ

“بعض القرارات البسيطة يمكنها ان تغيرنا.. وان تغير مجرى حياتنا ايضا!! هنا قصة حياة”
― إياد عبدالرحمن, ريب المنون

“Well -- think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no -- hang on -- this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?”
― Donna Tartt

“Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.”
― Anita Diamant, Day After Night

“What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might it have been Emma, instead of Stephanie Shaw, eating Pret A Manger sandwiches in a pencil skirt? For some time now she has had conviction that life is about to change if only because it must, and perhaps this it, perhaps this meeting is the new start.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“You can make the best of it or you can let it get the best of you. Those are your
two choices.”
― Comic Strip Mama

“He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live.”
― Elizabeth Michels, How To Lose A Lord In 10 Days Or Less

“The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers”
― Larry Eskridge, God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America

“Life doesn't always give us a choice between right and wrong. Occasionally, we are forced to choose between two rights or two wrongs...”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“And he had a theory about fear. It was all about regret. If you make what you want out of life and don't bullshit yourself about your choices, then there are no regrets, and a man without regret isn't afraid of anything.”
― Mark Allen Smith, The Inquisitor

“Somewhere, incredible things are happening. The trick is, not to go out and find where those things are happening, but to go out and make them happen.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love