Life Choices Quotes

Part of growing up is narrowing your life choices to a manageable size. ~ Amy E. Spiegel

If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices. ~ Debbie Ford

Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons. ~ David Richo

Over the years I have realized it's not the people who come into your life but the choices they force you to make gives the direction to your life. ~ Amit Abraham

Your destiny is the result of the choices that you make, which paths you take in life. ~ Steven Redhead

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life. ~ Andy Garcia

The alternatives in my life went through my mind. Unemployed, alone, despairing, watching daytime TV. That couldn't end well.

Or helping people, like genuinely making a difference. Imagine waking up and doing that every day? ~ Ruth Ahmed

We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents. ~ Lukasz Laniecki

Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier. ~ Susanne Bier

He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. ~ Salvador De Madariaga

Life doesn't always give us a choice between right and wrong. Occasionally, we are forced to choose between two rights or two wrongs... ~ Assegid Habtewold

Whether it is in your work, or your relationships, or your food choices, or your interaction with any part of nature, or anything that you think, speak, or do, mindfulness has the power to align you with expressing your highest Self, for your personal and our collective highest good.
Via mindfulness we can make the choices today, that will pre-pave the desired outcomes for all of our tomorrows. Via mindfulness we put ourselves in the flow of life, where life is no longer a series of "good" and "bad" moments, but about living with ease, contentment, wellbeing, and inner peace. Ultimately mindfulness requires action, with the first step being to make mindfulness a priority in your life. ~ Evita Ochel

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever. ~ Sarah Dessen

We, as women, as human beings, must always find a way to live with the good and bad of any decision we make. Whether you agree with another person's explanation and justification for their life choices is irrelevant. It's not your life to judge. ~ Jenn Sadai

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Life is not a matter of choices! Life is handed to you, a couple of cards that have cycled through the grimy hands of hundreds of players before you. There are no aces hidden up your sleeve. There is no shortcut to success and happiness. Sleight of hand will only earn you a bloody nose and a thrashing in the alley outback. So instead, you play the few good cards you have and do what you can with the bad, and you play fair. There is no choice. ~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Not exactly hard, is it?"

"That's what she said," Kate interjected.

Matt shook his head. "And this is where I chose to lay my affections," he muttered, like it was just the latest in a series of bad life choices he'd made. ~ Lauren James

Is life a game of yes or no? I wonder about the absolutes that we try to create for ourselves, our relationship, our life choices. We try to make things black and white when sometimes it is much more grey. ~ Savi Sharma

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey. ~ Drew Barrymore

You always have a choice. Destiny deals you your hand and what you do with the cards is up to you ~ Kenneth Eade

It is all about trusting your choice that you have already made. ~ Jasz Gill

It took me a really long time to decide who I want my circle to be and who I want to surround myself with. Once you make that choice, that is where I feel like I have built my strength. This is my life choice. These are the people that make me feel good about me, and that I love and adore and will do anything for. ~ Katie Aselton

If we don't do as well as we know how and we are prepared to do, it'll be largely because we act and make choices as though we're going to stay here, as though this life is all there is, when that is not the case. ~ Sheri L. Dew

Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

Choicelessness brings you to the whole. Choice is always of the part, necessarily so. And then one person goes from one choice to another, becomes a driftwood - from this bank to another bank, from that bank to this bank. This is how you have been moving, down the ages, for so many lives ~ Rajneesh

I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices - your mistakes - if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it. ~ Laura Wright

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life. ~ Mary Ruefle

Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on in your career whether you intend to be financially independent or marry a rich man, join the ranks of the professional elite or be the stay-at- home type, postpone having children or find part-time employment. Then fasten your seat belt and sit tight as you watch your trajectory veer off course. ~ Veronique Vienne

What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might it have been Emma, instead of Stephanie Shaw, eating Pret A Manger sandwiches in a pencil skirt? For some time now she has had conviction that life is about to change if only because it must, and perhaps this it, perhaps this meeting is the new start. ~ David Nicholls

This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices. ~ Jeaniene Frost

No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make. ~ Kate Winslet

Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life. ~ Elizabeth George

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be. ~ Graham Brown

I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made. ~ Leighton Meester

There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats. ~ Harvey Fierstein

My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers. ~ Ann Aguirre

many paths in the forest have chosen me. I go on any. ~ Hayden Carruth

The worst decisions in life we make are always the one we make out of fear. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm trying very hard not to think about anything I'm doing. Of all the iffy things I've ever done in my life, I've never had to ditch a body before. While it's giving me a migraine right now, I think the fact that I'm not an expert on corpse disposal says a lot of good things about me and my life choices. ~ Richard Kadrey

But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup. ~ Drew Barrymore

Sometimes you're left with only 1 choice: Take what's yours and run for you life. ~ Jennifer Elisabeth

There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you." -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3) ~ Krissi Dallas

And I would tell him, so full of twentysomething wisdom, that life is almost never about choosing between one thing you really want and another thing you don't want at all. If you're lucky, and healthy, and live in a country where you have enough to eat and no fear that you're going to get shot when you walk out your door, life is an endless series of choosing between two things you want almost equally. And you have to evaluate and determine which awesome thing you want infinitesimally more, and then give up that other awesome thing you want almost exactly as much. You have to trade awesome for awesome. Everyone I knew, no matter what they chose, was at least a little in mourning for that other thing. ~ Kristin Newman

How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever? Set sail to sea, but pulled off course by the light of golden treasure. ~ Metallica

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. ~ Samuel Johnson

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough ~ Karen White

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment). ~ Stephen Covey

Everything is a choice and every choice has a consequence; a good one or bad one! We choose to choose every day, whether we choose not to choose, but it is not all our choices that result in something better! It is not all our choices that result in something lasting! It is not all our choices that result in something fulfilling. No matter what our daily conscious and unconscious choices result in, the lessons from the results of our choices that can help shape our next choices must never be neglected, for they that shall neglect the lessons from the consequences of their choices shall always choose and choose again and again, and in the end, they shall never see any lasting and fulfilling footprints! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

By attacking the life choices of others we only reveal our own fears and prejudices. ~ Marty Rubin

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

People have a much greater chance of finding something they'll enjoy doing and making those greatest contributions when they trust themselves and are free to make their own life choices (are not marionettes in the hands of their parents). ~ Lukasz Laniecki

The villains' poor life choices weren't exactly the bees' fault, after all. ~ Marissa Meyer

Destiny is not fate, it's navigation. ~ Richie Norton

You have a choice, you either give it your best, or alternative you give up. Don't look back upon your life with regret, make the changes you want and make them now!". ~ Darren Housley

I have a hard enough time being me, not pulling myself apart every single day. And if it wasn't just my personality and my life choices, but then also my art too? I would die." I ~ Jami Attenberg

Anxiety is the dizziness we experience when we recognize we hold the freedom and responsibility for our life choices. More than anyone, alcoholics have a very clear sense of this dizziness, especially when we were coming to realize our own powerlessness over alcohol and that we could act differently. ~ Peg O'Connor

Find the joy in your everyday situations. You have the choice, you always did and you will always do. Thrive. ~ Ana Ortega

Sometimes when we least expect it, love gives us a second chance. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Whether you pick well or poorly, the act of choosing carries grief. Leaves you wondering, years later, what life might have been had you chosen differently. . . . Or even wishing you'd simply paused, taken a long, deep breath. Not allowed the personal moment and the pattern of your family and your stupid culture to shove you two-handed from behind, forcing you to stumble unbalanced into the future ~ Charles Frazier

That's not our role here, provide our parents with a "success story" to share at gatherings.

Our role here is to contribute the best we can to the society. Use our talents and make sure we add the greatest value possible to other people's lives. ~ Lukasz Laniecki

Somewhere, incredible things are happening. The trick is, not to go out and find where those things are happening, but to go out and make them happen. ~ Chloe Thurlow

When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing? ~ Yasmin Mogahed

Women HAVE a history that has been systematically suppressed. Our collective spirituality has largely been tainted to fit the needs of men and those in power. This has a profound effect on the self-esteem of girls and the women they become. This influence can be seen in their life choices, partners and financial security for the rest of their lives. It also has an effect on the way their future partners will view them - and ultimately treat them. Our girls deserve better. The time to introduce feminism and woman-centered spirituality to ALL children is now. ~ Trista Hendren

This is the day that can change everything for you. ~ Michael Hyatt

Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet ... Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life. ~ Evo Morales

When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them. ~ Henning Mankell

Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its survival, and Batman delivers. This belief prevents parents from letting those young adults actually live their lives. ~ Lukasz Laniecki

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you. ~ Anita Diamant

Life is funny. I'd applied to the wrong graduate program, but that eventually led me to the right grad program. I'd taken what I thought was the wrong undergraduate major, and that was the thing that set me apart and allowed me to find my niche. I don't know if there are any lessons to take from that except to realize that the things you think are mistakes may turn out not to be mistakes. I realized wherever you are, if you make the most of what you've got, you can find a way to keep moving forward. ~ Mike Massimino

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness. ~ Zig Ziglar

I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. ~ Ronald Regan

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life. ~ Elizabeth George

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time ~ Charles Eisenstein

All you can do in regard to your own life is choose the best path that you believe in. ~ Ichiro Kishimi

Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice. ~ Joyce Rachelle

The emptiness in our lives is due to the 'absence of all the right things,' and the 'presence of all the wrong things.' And if there's some sort of silver-lining to be found in feeling empty, it's that we've been successful at doing both of the above. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We all have to make choices in life. ~ Laura Schlessinger

Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck. ~ Oprah Winfrey

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one. ~ Marty Rubin

Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over. ~ Andy Kindler

Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too. ~ Mike Leigh

Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life. ~ Barbara Marciniak

Living your life through Gratitude, is not one of comparing how you are better than someone else; or Gratitude only for what you own or obtain or achieve. Living your life through Gratitude, is seeing that the world would be missing something very valuable if you were not in it. ~ Sumner Davenport

Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life. ~ Eugen Sandow

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices. ~ Mariella Frostrup

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past. ~ Aron Ralston

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. ~ Sylvia Plath

Everyone's going to die, and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible. ~ Anne Wojcicki

Our destiny becomes the accumulation of the choices that we make; the choices of which paths we took in life. ~ Steven Redhead

What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might be wise to consider the state of my soul, and then walk this process backwards. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is easy to know your purpose in life, because you choose your purpose in life. ~ Bryant McGill

Everyday we are all presented with the same primary colors(red, yellow, blue), some mix their colors to get secondary and tertiary colors to paint their life's portrait beautifully, others sit and complain that they don't have enough colors. It's not the number of colors on your pallet that does the magic, it's what you do with what you have. Go ahead and paint anyway. It's your life's portrait. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Decision and choices define life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have. ~ Allison Mack

How could anyone get anything important done if they didn't plan to get anything important done? You couldn't leave the important things in life to accident. ~ Anonymous

I remember spending years of my life so upset about all of the life choices I felt I had available that I never moved. I was paralyzed by all the possibilities. I couldn't figure out which road would lead me to the fulfillment of my potential, this glorious, neurotic myth that lay always just in front of whatever I could manifest now. So I was always too scared to move, and fear of course is the great betrayer of self. The difference between those people living their potential and those who don't is not the amount of potential itself, but the amount of permission they give themselves to live in the present. ~ Marianne Williamson

The writer is often faced with two choices
turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction. ~ Chinua Achebe