“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”— Robert Frost, en.wikipedia.org
“Wife: "Would you like dinner? Husband: "What are my choices?" Wife: "Yes or No"”— shomali11, reddit.com
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”— William James, amazon.com
“That’s the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what’s going on.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“That’s how you can tell that you’re filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.”— Glennon Melton, amazon.com
“When you love someone, you are sure. You don’t need time to decide. You don’t say stop and start over and over, like you’re playing some kind of sport. You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it.”— Nina LaCour, amazon.com
“Studies have shown that people convince themselves that they’re acting rationally when making major decisions— where to go to college, what to major in, who to kiss or not kiss—when they’re really acting on unconscious impulses. The human brain simply can’t handle all the complexities that life offe…”— Megan McCafferty, amazon.com
“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.”— Charles Bukowski, goodreads.com
“Never blame another person for your personal choices – you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.”— Caroline Myss, wordsofwomen.co
“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
“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.”— Jeff Gordon, motorsport.com
“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com