The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.
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Quotes tagged ‘Choices’
If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story.
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.
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.
I choose to stay present, to unlearn how to unlove, to love, and to practice my worthiness of it.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.’
I know it doesn't feel like this all the time, but we get to choose what we care about and what we spend our resources on. We choose what, or ideally whom, to lust after. We choose what to watch, what to like, what to build, how to spend, the breaths we've been allotted; and the fact that many of ou…
"Chocolate chip cookies or Oreos?" "I think you meant ‘and’: chocolate chip cookies AND Oreos. And the answer to that is yes.
I have to remind myself, stop thinking about the future. Stop thinking about what happened at work today, or another choice you could have made.
Your bad choices will end up being your best lessons.
When it comes to second chances, the choice is yours and yours alone. Others cannot possibly know or understand all of the variables of your deep and abiding goals in your partnership. Just you.
Pain is only what you allow it to be.
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.
Friends are the family you choose.
I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.
Always choose the future over the past.
We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are o…
We might not get to choose who we’re born as or where we come from, but only you can decide what becomes of you.
If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?