Quotes tagged ‘Choices’

“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

— Deborah Reber, amazon.com

“You have the final word for what you accept in life. It’s your inner voice that ultimately betrays you. Speak-up for yourself.”

— Bryant McGill, bryantmcgill.com

“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”

— Marcel Proust, amazon.com

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without beco…”

— Osho, amazon.com

“My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind…”

— Andy Andrews, amazon.com

“The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw, irishcentral.com

“Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”

— Nicola Yoon, amazon.com

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

— Rick Riordan, amazon.com

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

“Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.”

— Philip Zimbardo, forejustice.org

“You don’t have to defend or explain your decisions to anyone. It’s your life. Live it without apologies”

— Mandy Hale, onlinecounsellingcollege.tumblr.com

“There is no one else for me. I begin and end with you.”

— Samantha Towle, amazon.com

“Of course if he wanted to escape, he could do so. The prison was, after all, his own heart.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.”

— Herman Koch, amazon.com

“The honest to God truth is that I’m mad at myself. I should’ve known better.”

— Miranda Kenneally, amazon.com

“Don’t be a fool. Don’t give up something important to hold onto someone who can’t even say they love you.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”

— Thaddeus Golas, amazon.com