“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“The decisions you are making are not all forever decisions. I know you feel so much pressure to figure it all out right now and everything feels like a major decision. It’s not. Choose what feels the best for RIGHT NOW and trust you will learn from each choice you make.”— Christine Hassler, christinehassler.com
“When you leave college, you get to make decisions about your future based on what you want, and you don’t have anyone else’s plans to think about.”— Lauren Hudson, hercampus.com
“There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. And, of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back.”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“I didn’t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I’d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I’d vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines... that are way too dangerous to cross.”— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“Work/life integration seems to me a better goal than balance. Balance suggests that our lives are in two parts. The more mindful we are, the less we compartmentalize our lives.”— Ellen J. Langer, goodreads.com
“My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“A lot of people feel like they’re victims in life, and they’ll often point to past events, perhaps growing up with an abusive parent or in a dysfunctional family. Most psychologists believe that about 85 percent of families are dysfunctional, so all of a sudden you’re not so unique. My parents were…”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”— Stephen R. Covey, amazon.com
“At the moment you consciously make a choice, pay attention to your body and ask your body, ‘If I make this choice, what happens?’ If your body sends a message of comfort, that’s the right choice. If your body sends a message of discomfort, then it’s not the appropriate choice.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”— Deepak Chopra, books.google.com