“How far can you go down the wrong path before you can’t get back on the right one?”— Carolee Dean, amazon.com
“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn’t look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”— Tess Gerritsen, amazon.com
“We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.”— Angelina Jolie, dailymail.co.uk
“Somethings in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you’re afraid some day you might lose it.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”— Marion Zimmer Bradley, amazon.com
“But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”— Nora Ephron, washingtonpost.com
“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. The truth isn't always the safest course, but mostly it is.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”— Doris Lessing, amazon.com
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“Every decision you make is made on the basis of emotion, either fear or desire.”— Brian Tracy, amazon.com
“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“Decisions are hard when no single option clearly dominates the alternatives.”— Tania Lombrozo, npr.org
“Own what you do. I don’t mean legally or financially (although that could be fine if you get it). But own your decisions. Make your choices. Once you have to ask for permission, someone else has the keys to your freedom.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“Discipline eliminates complexity. Everyday, you make micro and macro decisions. If you reduce the number of decisions you need to make daily, you have more freedom.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“The first component to achieving something is picking it.”— Benjamin Hardy, journal.thriveglobal.com
“I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com