“Since the world has changed so much, the same values don’t lead to the same choices anymore”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“You are the only person who can build emotional barriers, but you’re also the only person who can topple them. Other people can’t knock down the walls you’ve built, no matter how much they love you. You have to tear them down yourself because there’s something worth seeing on the other side.”— Emery Lord, amazon.com
“You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“If I don’t have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”— Robert Fulghum, amazon.com
“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.”— Zoraida Córdova, amazon.com
“Deciding whether or not to offer a second chance to your partner truly depends on what he or she did to get in this position in the first place. No judgements here; if you feel whatever he or she did wasn't serious enough to ruin the foundation of your relationship, it's worth taking the time to thi…”— Sara Altschule, bustle.com
“Even after giving someone a second chance, you might find out that your original decision to dislike or not want to be with that person was right after all. However, that second chance may lead to opportunities for fulfillment that you might otherwise never have found possible.”— Susan Krauss Whitbourne, psychologytoday.com
“I have learned that the choices we make in our lives bring us exactly to where we are right now. I have learned that whether we make the right decision or the bad one, in the end, it teaches us to become stronger and wiser.”— Angelo Caerlang, thoughtcatalog.com
“I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?”— Sarah Addison Allen, amazon.com
“When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com