Life Quotes - Page 118

When Scripture says, "As a man thinks, so is he," it is raw truth. How we approach life and react to its vagaries determines the bulk of our character. How we love is locked into how we think about it. What angers us is triggered by how we think. It is between our ears that we decide how easily offended we will be. When it comes to harsh words from others, whether my skin absorbs like cotton or deflects like Teflon is a decision I make. All of that happens in a three-pound organ five-and-a-half inches across called my brain. In a very real sense, my world begins and ends between my ears. I don't have to be brain-dead to be brain-defeated.

Richard Foth

There are no maps for the unexpected detours and unmarked paths we face in life.

Steve Knox

I don't know Kitten," she said, zipping up her money belt, "but I'll tell you one thing--if it were a book, I wouldn't be able to put it down.

Kate Mulgrew

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

Shannon L. Alder

There is no such thing as a good decision and a bad decision. There are only decisions. Make them, fuck up, enjoy, repeat.

Daniel Smith

I've spent so much time these last years wondering what I'm supposed to be. A wife? A lover? A celibate? An Italian? A glutton? A traveler? An artist? A Yogi? But I'm not any of these things, at least not completely. And I'm not Crazy Aunt Liz, either. I'm just a slippery antevasin - betwixt and between - a student on the ever-shifting border near the wonderful, scary forest of the new.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Life is all about choices. Choices define us, sculpt us. What will your choices say about you?

Sheena Hutchinson

I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

...most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that don't give a person leave to just walk away from em... In a case like that, you just have to make the best choice you can n then pay the price.

Stephen King

It's mind-boggling when you think about how important it is to do what you feel is right. You don't know what you'll be missing when you make a bad choice.

Jay Alton

Life is choices...and sometimes other people's choices even more than your own.

Jamie Mason

Decision, Decision, Decision!Choices, Choices, Choice.!Decision and choices define life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't let the doubt in, because when it does it ruins everything.

Karen Mosquera

Don’t you know that everything you do in life has consequences?

Kenneth Eade

At age 13, I was violently mugged at a busy train station. There were dozens of onlookers, but none of them lent a hand ... That was a defining point in that stage of my life. After that, I could never tell myself that it was someone else's problem, or let a situation pass me by if I felt something had to be done. I knew from experience that all too often, no one else would act.

Adrián Lamo

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Janet Fitch

Our twenties can be like living beyond time. When we graduate from school, we leave behind the only lives we have ever known, ones that have been neatly packaged in semester-sized chunks with goals nestled within. Suddenly, life opens up and the syllabi are gone. There are days and weeks and months and years, but no clear way to know when or why any one thing should happen. It can be a disorienting, cave-like existence. As one twentysomething astutely put it, "The twentysomething years are a whole new way of thinking about time. There's this big chunk of time and a whole bunch of stuff that needs to happen somehow.

Meg Jay

The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn't matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn't win the lottery.

Meg Jay

We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It’s when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life.

Anthony Liccione

I think part of making any decision in your twenties is realizing there is no twenty-four flavor table. It's a myth.

Meg Jay

After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you.

V.E. Schwab

You get older, and you make your choices, and one by one the doors shut.

Rebecca Podos

Control or be controlled are the choices that will make life different.

Steven Redhead

(...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

Ruth Ozeki

Sometimes you have to try all options to find out the best one for you.!

Best-Quote

Because choices need time, the fulness of time, time being the horizontal axis of morality - you make a decision and then you wait and see, wait and see.

White Teeth - Zadie Smith

I keep saying there's no Choice, and what I've meant is that you can't choose: you have no right or ability to select one of the two alternatives. But I didn't go far enough. There's no Choice because the Choice itself is wrong. It's a false dilemma. The alternatives are not alternatives at all. Long versus short, quiet versus heroic: they're the same. In the scope of infinity, in a universe with no edge, human history is a flare and human consciousness is a blink. All lives are short and all lives are quiet.But all lives are glorious too, Cal. To live! To live like a human! You are ordinary and extraordinary all at once. You have a heart that contracts and relaxes and beats out your moments. You are alive and you know you are alive. Your too-short time is long e

Kate Hattemer

Aside God, you have just one boss! That is you. You choose to be a good boss or a bad boss with the business of your life! That is you!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The choices I didn’t make are almost as ruinous as the ones I did.

Pat Conroy

He concluded in the last scene that we are given two choices in life. We can allow ourselves to love and care for others, which makes us vulnerable to their sickness, death, or rejection. Or we can protect ourselves by refusing to love. Lewis decided that it is better to feel and to suffer than to go through life isolated, insulated, and lonely.

James C. Dobson

You're the one who has to live with your choice," she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

Veronica Roth

You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.

Shannon L. Alder

What you shouldn't be must not be allowed to stand on the way of whom you can become.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

More often, one decision can change the entire course of a life.

Marcia Lynn McClure

You can’t save everyone. It’s not an option.

Darren Shan

Life is an expression of the choices we make.

Laurie Buchanan

If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes the choices others make take ours from us. Do you understand?

Mary Calmes

If you take my right hand, you can start over. You will be reborn as a different character; your personality will develop along a different path. Your story will be irretrievably altered. And this time, there will be no mistakes. You will live, love, and die, blissfully unaware.

Dylan Randall Wong En Lai

You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't try to give me a limited amount of choices. I make my own.

Maria Noor

Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The resolute look on life closes plenty of doors.

Andy Harglesis

We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it’s more accurate to say that we make the choice unconsciously. I think I did – but now I knew it because now I was able to put it into words. But I don’t mean this in the fatalistic sense; we’re constantly making choices. With the breaths we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide as though by instinct. And so some of us will inevitably find ourselves rolling around in a puddle on some roof in a strange place with a takeout katsudon in the middle of winter, looking up at the night sky, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Banana Yoshimoto

Life every day is a room full of doors.

James W. Harper

For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live.

Matthew Kelly

When you start exercising choices, as against embracing opportunities, you become your own God, leaving precious little in the hands of Almighty!

Sandeep Sahajpal

I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.

Heather Brewer

The truth is that this was something over which I had no control and the question is not why but what. What am I going to do with this? What am I going to make of it?

Vicki Forman

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

Jeannette Walls

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

Edward Abbey

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

Anna Godbersen

The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop.

Alix

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

Ron Rash

The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch. Sometimes this was easy, all you had to do was step onto it, the train was plush and comfortable and full of people smiling at you in a hush, and a conductor who punched your ticket and tousled your head with his big hand, saying, Ain’t you pretty, ain’t you the prettiest girl now, lucky lady taking a big train trip with your daddy, while you sank into the dreamy softness of your seat and sipped ginger ale from a can and watched the world float in magical silence past your window, the tall buildings of the city in the crisp autumn light and then the backs of the houses with laundry flapping and a crossing with gates where a boy was waving from his bicycle, and then the woods and fields and a single cow eating grass............Because sometimes it was one way, easy, and sometimes it was the other, not easy; the things of your life roared down to you and it was all you could do to grab hold and hang on. Your old life ended, and the train took you away to another...

Justin Cronin

What we do,our choices, that's what defines us.

Carrie Jones

I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.

Nora Roberts

People say that it's the big decisions that are important... that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction.

Julie Gittus

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