Making Choices Quotes

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“She leaned against the bridge’s warm marble balustrade, and looked as far down the darkening canal as the setting sun would allow. She wondered if others appreciated Venice’s beauty and fragility as deeply as she had come to or if, like a raging fever, the city infected some while avoiding others. She sighed at the grandeur and at the resilience that surrounded her, and she promised herself she’d try to be more like Venice.”
― Marie Ohanesian Nardin, Beneath the Lion's Wings

“I've made a lot of choices, some good, some not so good; how sad for those who merely hitchhike along, never daring to choose at all.”
― C.J. Heck, Anatomy of a Poet

“It's often not until after a decision is made that you know whether you've made the right choice. The relief tells you.”
― Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened

“Every choice involves some kind of pain. Choosing one path means rejecting another along with everything down it.”
― Jennifer Beckstrand, Kate's Song

“When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Following your inner guidance has a unique power all its own. Even when others can't understand it, you can feel your soul being pulled to the place it truly belongs.”
― Kianu Starr

“Sometimes I’m so afraid of making the wrong choice that I just don’t make any choice at all.”
― Charlotte Stein, Beyond Repair

“You’re looking at this choice like it’s right versus wrong. It’s not right versus wrong. It’s right versus left. You’re at a crossroads. You can go left or right…both are good options. That’s why it’s so hard to decide. If this was a choice between right and wrong, it would be easy.”
― Tiffany Reisz, Her Halloween Treat

“Be at peace with your choices.
They all serve you.”
― Alan Cohen

“The secret of success in life is the persistent practice of making choices.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.”
― William Glasser

“When you reach a crossroad decide which direction will bring you the most happiness, satisfaction, and inner peace.”
― Germany Kent

“My family may have expectations of me, but in the end, I have to be the one at peace with my choices.”
― The Thoughtful Beast

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

“A man of wisdom faces it all and makes his choices that actually can change a lot of things.”
― Kateryna Kei, Raven Boy

“So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis—there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.”
― Stephen Covey

“Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you.”
― Kenneth Eade, Traffick Stop

“We feel (God's) presence every time we make a choice. It's something that's inside us.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“Dear Daughter,
When making choices, do not choose the easy option, choose the right option.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen

“And it was strange to know myself and be so certain when I'd spent so long not knowing myself- never really being allowed to discover who I was, what I might like or dislike, what I'd want or need. But I knew now.

I had known the moment I had asked him to stay. I knew what the consequences could be. I knew what I was, and what was expected of me, and I knew I could no longer be that. It wasn't what I wanted in life. It had never been my choice.

But this... this I wanted.

Hawke was who I wanted.

This was my choice.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Agency is the job. Choices are your duties while on the job. Consequences are the eventual paycheck. So, if you want a decent paycheck, make decent choices.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year