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We should learn to smile as we fall, So much so as when we have it all.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
More often, one decision can change the entire course of a life.
— Marcia Lynn McClure, The Pirate Ruse
You can’t save everyone. It’s not an option.
— Darren Shan, Slawter
Liberals want all people to have choices open to them - which does not mean that everyone HAS to choose things they don't want to or don't agree with. Quite frankly, I don't see why any sane human being would have a problem with that?
— Christina Engela, All That Remains
Don't waste your time trying to understand why other people are happy with their choices
—  spend your time making sure you are happy with you own.
The size of a book never matter as the size of wisdom in the book
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty
Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, Balancing Work, Relationships & Life in Three Simple Steps
But at a certain point in our lives, we cannot passively allow our upbringing to define us. We must choose it or choose other.
— Jon Skovron, Hope and Red
Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.
— William Glasser
Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
You have the potential to make healthy choices and balance your priorities no matter where you are on your life journey.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, Balancing Work, Relationships & Life in Three Simple Steps
The answer to finding better work/life balance is to find the right blend between all our life activities—regardless of where and when they occur.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, Balancing Work, Relationships & Life in Three Simple Steps
Life is an expression of the choices we make.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.
— Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle
Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
True purpose dies when true people who are suppose to keep it alive fail to give it life
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I will either adamantly prioritize my agendas at the expense of the truth, or I will consistently bring my agendas into unrelenting obedience to the truth. And if for some reason you’re trying to determine who I truly am, the choice I make will tell you.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Yes – But – Well, it is yours to choose. I do not force anyone. Is it a hard choice?” “No-o.” Judith shook her head. “Except that I do not know which to choose.
— Jane Gaskell, Strange Evil
The choices I didn’t make are almost as ruinous as the ones I did.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
Where does it lead, this rockrose path?
— Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo
We all pay for our choices.
— Deyth Banger
Don’t just think about what you missed! Don’t continue to dwell on your past mistakes. You shall always miss something in life, consciously or unconsciously! You shall never be able to do all things excellently in life though you must try to! The lesson from what you missed and its application for a better tomorrow is what matter! Move your thought! Move your body!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Don’t just think about what you missed! Don’t continue to dwell on your past mistakes. You shall also miss something in life, consciously or unconsciously! You shall never be able to do all things excellently in life though you must try to! The lesson from what you missed and its application for a better tomorrow is what matter! Move your thought! Move your body!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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, The Transfer
Following imprinting, valuations become locally coherent, as the consumer attempts to reconcile future decisions of a "similar kind" with the initial one. This creates an illusion of order, because consumers' coherent responses to subsequent changes in conditions disguise the arbitrary nature of the initial, foundation choice.
— Dan Ariely
I’m not brave
—  it’s just that all other choices have been thrown out the window.
The paradox of choice; the more options there are, the harder it is to chose and the higher the expectations and so, the satisfaction is diminished.
— R.A.Delmonico
People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Brothers in Arms
Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you.And then it's over.
— Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
Strategy is about making choices
—  it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
Choices are made before explanations, whether or not we care to know it.
— L.S. Hilton, Maestra
You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.
— Shannon L. Alder
If we are with someone out of choice, we should act accordingly, and choose to communicate rather than deteriorate.
— lauren klarfeld
You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.
— Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days
We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We're shaped by our choices.
— Sarah Dalton, White Hart
Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto!
— Deyth Banger
You don't belong to someone who considers you as an option!
— Aanu
Sometimes you have to try all options to find out the best one for you.!
— Best-Quote
Some choices, once you make them, they stay made.
— Sherri L. Smith, Orleans
People always make choices, always take sides!
— Deyth Banger
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, The Land of 10,000 Madonnas
We are our choices.. That's why I am so afraid to choose.. Because more than anything else, I am afraid of facing myself..
— Laarni Venus Marie Nillama
«And in the end» said the witch to the drowning prince «You've been the one choosing the thornless path in spite of knowing where it could lead. The one who afraid of the pricking roses, plunged himself into an abyss without petals
— Nur Bedeir
When people are vulnerable to control, they feel that they are selfish for deciding what to do with their own property. In reality, deciding for ourselves is the only way we can ever have true love, for then we are giving freely.
— Henry Cloud, Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future
Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
When you heart knows it doesn't belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.
— Shannon L. Alder
None of this is your fault,' I told him. 'None of it. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
— Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade
My mom used to say, ‘Life isn’t fair,’“ said Shadow.“Of course she did,” said Wednesday. “It’s one of those things that moms say, right up there with ‘If all your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too?’”“You stiffed that girl for ten bucks, I slipped her ten bucks,” said Shadow, doggedly. “It was the right thing to do.”Someone announced that their plane was boarding. Wednesday stood up. “May your choices always be so clear,” he said.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
When Ego is in control it judges and punishes. But love forgives and heals. Surrendering, is one of the most powerful choices one can make.The doors of love only open for the person who is prepared to let his ego go. To surrender one's ego for someone else is love; to surrender one's ego for all is divine love.﻿
— Angie karan
Your human gods love to present you with such riddles and challenges, or so it has seemed to me for most of my life... You often seem to prefer difficult choices when simple alternatives are available; it is a constant source of amazement to my kind.
— Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy
Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive???
— Deyth Banger
Tomorrow is tomorrow and today is today. Tomorrow will come and we shall still say today. Worry not yourself about tomorrow but today! Plan your tomorrow today and tomorrow will never be a regretful yesterday for you. Those who least plan their tomorrow today always meet tomorrow and still live in yesterday.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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
After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you.
— V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows
But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.
— Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means
You get older, and you make your choices, and one by one the doors shut.
— Rebecca Podos, The Mystery of Hollow Places
When you want to do something that isn’t the ‘norm’ you will be made to feel like you have a problem and if you hear it often enough then you start to believe it too.
— Radhika Vaz, Unladylike: A Memoir
Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
Luck is made by the making the right choices at the right timing and place.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Why? As much fun as a hospital sounds, I'd rather spend the evening dancing with an amazing, smart, funny, interesting, beautiful girl who has the most incredible green eyes I've ever seen. Sophie, will you go to the dance with me?
— Leslea Wahl, The Perfect Blindside
Mr.Nobody everyone should watch this film - Everything is about choices - Remember that before you watch the film.
— Deyth Banger
Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
Control or be controlled are the choices that will make life different.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
It ain't kin we? It's will we?
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Well, that's the thing about choices, isn't it? There are always more to make. I've never seen a street where you couldn't cross to the other side.
— Beatriz Williams, The Forgotten Room
Create you own singleness, your own loneliness, and know that you know this is exactly what you are doing. And feel damn right about it.
— Margaret Aranda
(...) 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, A Tale for the Time Being
You have the chance to create
—  all the choices are yours to make if you decide to do so.
I need to do something about college, but I’m not sure what.”“Where have you decided to apply?”“Nowhere yet. Any time I think about the schools I’ve visited, I feel overwhelmed. The campuses are so big that I know I’ll get lost. I dread making new friends. And the professors acted too busy to deal with someone like me. My parents will be wasting a huge amount of money.”“Your fears are no different than most high school seniors.” He studied me thoughtfully. “Must you go to college?”I opened my mouth to say Of course, I must—and then shut it again. The concept didn’t bother me nearly as much as it should have. Skipping college would be crazy. Right? It was hard enough for a disabled person to find a job, but being disabled with no degree would make it hopeless. “I don’t have a choice.”“Perhaps you have more choices than you realize.
— Elizabeth Langston, Wishing for You
But she does it anyway, and I sit beside her...because strength is a choice.
— Nadine Brandes, A Time to Speak
It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Fluttershyes are like regular shyes, only shinier, and, apparently - also shyer. Whenever petted - they don't flutter, but run away instead.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.
— Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
Redemption. What a laughable concept. When he looked over his life, he couldn't see where he had first stepped off the righteous path. More important, had he even ever laid a single foot on that path?
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you could do anything, so you probably did nothing, frozen with indecision.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.
— Conn Iggulden, Conqueror
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, Mirror
Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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
Sometimes horrible choices can lead to the right decision, its not where we start that's important but where we end.
— Ava Harrison, Imperfect Truth
I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
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 Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
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, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
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
If the first step in establishing a professional identity is claiming our interests and talents, then the next step is claiming a story about our interests and talents, a narrative we can take with us to interviews and coffee dates (...) a story that balances complexity and cohesion is frankly, diagnostic.
— Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
You become what you believe, decide, and act upon.
— Anese Cavanaugh
I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.
— Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge.
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
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, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It's the same way you decide to STAY happily married!
— Ngina Otiende, Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily-Ever-After In The Early Years
With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble.
— Ashish Patel
Life is supposedly filled with paths that enable unlimited choices, but that is a blatant lie. No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices made for them have already set them on a passage that limits the choices they have yet to make.
— J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness
Choices, Choices, Choices!Listen to your instincts; you will make the best-choices.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.
— Carrie Snyder, Girl Runner
... we live in a purposeful world with a linear movement to a grand climax. Thousands of sub-plots unfold enroute to the great finale. Behind your life is an unseen and up fathomed blueprint where every experience is purposeful. Within this divine plan we are not robots, but responsible moral agents. We make choices and we are responsible for these choices. But God, in a way that you and I will never fathom, integrates into his plan our choices long before they are ever made.
— Jim Andrews
It wasn't as if they had a choice. They were soldiers whose choices had ended when they had signed contracts and taken their oaths. Whether they had joined for reasons of patriotism, of romantic notions, to escape a broken home of some sort, or out of economic need, their job now was to follow the orders of other soldiers who were following orders, too. Somewhere, far from Iraq, was where the orders began, but by the time they reached Rustamiyah, the only choice left for a solider was to choose which lucky charm to tuck behind his body armor, or which foot to line up in front of the other, as he went out to follow the order of the day.
— David Finkel, The Good Soldiers
Sometimes doing what's right for your conscience is not always the most popular decision, but I can guarantee that in retrospect you won't regret the choice you made.
— Tyler Oakley, Binge
The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices...but the most powerful spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well.
— Louise Penny
When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices.
— Sunday Adelaja
Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment.
— Sunday Adelaja
There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.
— John Wooden
If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado, he’d go with the sunshine.
— Meredith Marple, The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More: A Great Wharf Novel
Today is the sum of all the choices we made in our yesterdays. Choose wisely, for a secure, happy, and meaningful tomorrow.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Choices, Choices, Choice.!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Decision, Decision, Decision!Choices, Choices, Choice.!Decision and choices define life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don't let the doubt in, because when it does it ruins everything.
— Karen Mosquera
It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.
— Auberon Herbert
The good news is that every morning we have the choice; not to be controlled by circumstances nor our past but by purposely designing our day, hence our lives better. Not to react to life but to respond with love.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.
— Shannon L. Alder
be patient enough to identify the real reasons why you meet people, situations and moments in time or else you would be patient enough to analyze the real reasons why you missed people, situations and moments in time in regret or in wonder
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There’s only one way to know if people are good or evil: look at the choices they make. We each contain precious and worthless, great and small. Never injure the great for the sake of the small, or the precious for the sake of the worthless. Small people nurture what is small in them; great people nurture what is great in them.
— Mencius, Mencius
Don’t you know that everything you do in life has consequences?
— Kenneth Eade, Killer.com
People only keep their eyes open out of habit. And, nothing more.
— S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped
There is no reason to contain your positive thoughts, words and emotions and many reasons to control your negative ones. Are you making the right choices?
— Tom Cunningham
Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within.
— Beau Sides, Unseen Tears: The Challenges of Orphans and Orphanages in China
Yes, there's plenty of fish in the sea, but be gifted with a rare catch: that one which lives with "forever faithfulness." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
— Angelica Hopes
We are defined by how we choose to exist. Responsibility towards and contribution to society is part of how we make a difference. Every human being wants to make a difference
—  one of the ways we might do this is through our contribution to communities .
Be careful how you live. Someone is always watching and will look to you as an example, an excuse, or a warning. The message some choices send is why struggle to do the right thing when you can do the wrong thing and be happy. Should we be happy or should we be right?
— Donna Lynn Hope
At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Our choices reflect the kind of person we are!
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
Whenever it comes to decision making, Remember the part about having confidence.
— Auliq Ice
Our being is more important than our doing. We are human beings, acting as though we are human doings. In our frenzied doing, we are often not conscious of our state of being. Yet our deepest impact comes from our state of being because it is at the root of our intentions, our choices, and our behavior.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
Authenticity is a practice we choose in each present moment. It is not a plan or a destination to get to. The choices we make in the now are most important because in a fast-changing world, flexing to what’s happening now, and creating from it is a critical leadership skill.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
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, Maybe in Another Life
...Except when I was alone. I'd hate myself. It's how we feel about ourselves when we're alone that must guide our decisions.
— Tom Rob Smith, The Farm
...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, Dolores Claiborne
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
— Ayn Rand
People who own their lives do not feel guilty when they make choices about where they are going. They take other people into consideration, but when they make choices for the wishes of others, they are choosing out of love, not guilt; to advance a good, not to avoid a bad.
— Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Only dedication to God’s calling can make you say a firm “no” to everything that is in the way of its fulfillment.
— Sunday Adelaja
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, Thunder Hawk
You may disagree. Personal history and national history do not always overlap, a point often overlooked in some of the broad strokes applied to the SG50 celebrations. But do consider your choices. In the age of Buzzfeed, we love lists. Make your own. No two lists will be the same, but collectively, they all say the same thing. They are all in search of a soul.
— Neil Humphreys
Life is choices...and sometimes other people's choices even more than your own.
— Jamie  Mason, Monday's Lie
We often prefer love for humans to love for God.
— Sunday Adelaja
While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices that mold and shape us.
— Karen Kimsey-House, Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead
Don't judge someone's choices without first knowing their reason.
— Robert Tew
Don't let the poor choices you made negate the years you spent loving him.
— Christine Brae, His Wounded Light
I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady
— A.C. Gaughen, Lion Heart
Satan's masterpiece of counterfeiting is the doctrine that there are only two choices, and he will show us what they are. It is true that there are only two ways, but by pointing us the way he wants us to take and then showing us a fork in that road, he convinces us that we are making the vital choice, when actually we are choosing between branches in his road. Which one we take makes little difference to him, for both lead to destruction. This is the polarization we find in the world today. Thus we have the choice between Shiz and Coriantumr-- which all the Jaredites were obliged to make. We have the choice between the wicked Lamanites (and they were that) and the equally wicked (Mormon says "more wicked") Nephites. Or between the fleshpots of Egypt and the stews of Babylon, or between the land pirates and the sea pirates of World War I, or between white supremacy and black supremacy, or between Vietnam and Cambodia, or between Bushwhachers and Jayhawkers, or between China and Russia, or between Catholic and Protestant, or between fundamentalist and atheist, or between right and left-- all of which are true rivals who hate each other. A very clever move of Satan!-- a subtlety that escapes us most of the time. So I ask Latter-day Saints, "What is your position frankly (I'd lake to take a vote here) regarding the merits of cigarettes vs. cigars, wine vs. beer, or heroin vs. LSD?" It should be apparent that you take no sides. By its nature the issue does not concern you. It is simply meaningless as far as your life is concerned. "What, are you not willing to stand up and be counted?" No, I am not. The Saints took no sides in that most passionately partisan of wars, the Civil War, and they never regretted it.
— Nibley, Hugh
Everyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and be forced to make a choice: they would either have to accept an existence beset with disappointment and pain or else come to realise that everyone was born to be happy. Having made their choice, they would have no option but to change, and the great struggle, the Jihad, would begin.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
The trail of life may be narrow and bumpy, could be crammed with deadly insects and venomous thorns, but it is built with ample number of doors everywhere for sure. Yet, access to most of them remains imperceptible till the one which remained open to us gets shut. But then, we would again be left stranded, bemused, staring at many new doors—this time, unable to decide which one to choose! And usually, we even refuse to knock any.
— Hari Parameshwar, Chase of Choices
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, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
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, Born with Teeth
Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty.
— Shannon L. Alder
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, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
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, Eat, Pray, Love
Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.
— Robert Moment, How to Be Happy in Life: Easy to Use Happiness Tips, Ideas and Strategies to Be Happy
Life is all about choices. Choices define us, sculpt us. What will your choices say about you?
— Sheena Hutchinson, Discovering April
Love is easy early on...its when the busyness of life creeps in and felling ebb and flow that real love shines through in small choices.
— Steve Knox
Love is easy early on...it's when feelings ebb and flow and the busyness of life creeps in that real love shines through in small conscious choices.
— Steve Knox
If the choices you make are not quality, don't put them on the top shelf.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Inside and outside of every experience is an infinite amount of sensations, feelings, thoughts, and emotions, each having their own variation of depth and breadth, each one dependent on each person’s own personality, life experiences, and the stress we faced just prior to each moment in time when we are called upon to make a choice.
— Edward Lewellen
Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to “How do I bear this?” need not always be “Endure.
— Anna Lyndsey, Girl in the Dark
Until YOU get enough of what you’re going through, no matter what advice a person gives you, you’ll continue to go through the same thing. When you get the courage to stop making excuses for them, and stop excusing their behavior, then you’ll be able to break free from that unhealthy situation. You’ve got to be willing to face YOUR truth in order to move on and be at peace. You matter!
— Stephanie Lahart
No matter how hard you try to be a good person, to make choices that will lead to success, nothing is promised. Even the good and the innocent are damned from time to time.
— Lindsay Detwiler, Voice of Innocence
There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.
— Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy
Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
But you...I felt that you would not be used. Would not allow yourself to be used. You deserve the opportunity to make your own choices, to walk your own path. Indeed, I believe you will do so, regardless of what Ending, Geryon, or anyone else intends. You must do what you believe to be right.
— Django Wexler, The Mad Apprentice
She didn't want to. She loved you. She loves you now. Yes, she hurt you and she made a terrible mistake in leaving you. But your father made mistakes, too, and you will, as well. We all make bad choices - decisions that would better be left to rot in the bottom of the barrel. But we can't undo them. We can only move forward.
— Tracie Peterson, A Moment in Time
Sometimes another person’s fear tells you that everything you're about to do is right.
— Shannon L. Alder
There's a choice?""Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.
— Janny Wurts, Grand Conspiracy
Down through the centuries, the Savior has repeatedly lifted the fallen from the holes they've dug for themselves one shovel scoop at a time. After His grand rescue, the Redeemer does not always seal that hole shut behind us. He does not force us into relationship or bully us into repentance. Instead, He leaves us with a choice: follow Me or fall again.
— Jennifer Dukes Lee, Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes
I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.
— Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream
Whether we choose the path of faith or not, we all must agree that all of life's ironies cannot be by accident.
— Jack Deveny, Blind Triangle: A Rare Love Story from the Sixties
The only certainty in life is that all things will certainly change.
— Jack Deveny, Blind Triangle: A Rare Love Story from the Sixties
People who make mistakes are in the best position to make better choices.
— Sarah Noffke, Revived
Life happens because of choices we make, if you want a better outcome; think before you create.
— Nikki Rowe
To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego.
— Peter Santos, Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook
Do what you will, but never out of fear.
— Ron Brackin
Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choice to make a difference in your life at any time you wish.
— Auliq Ice
Lord I submit my body to You. Help me to be disciplined in the way I care for it. Help me to choose health-filled and life-giving foods and be able to resist eating what I should not have. Enable me to make the right choices with regard to what I eat.
— Stormie Omartian, 10 Minutes to Powerful Prayer
War is an option of difficulties.
— James Wolfe
Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.
— Auliq Ice
With your own wish and desires, never accept alternative offered chances, only stand strong to making your own choice into reality. You will stand a chance to be what you wish to be with your own words.
— Auliq Ice
When you learn to say 'NO', you activate the faculty of 'CHOICE' in your mind ! Some of the times you are the chosen one..at other times you CHOOSE for yourself..and saying NO is a sign that one has graduated into becoming a wise CHOICEMAKER ......
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.
— Ben Carson
You will never get to your destination on time if choose to walk two paths through life.
— Shannon L. Alder
In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.
— Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
— Frank Herbert
Everything has an advantage and disadvantage but, choose an option that will bring you back to the track. Even if you see a poor man on the street choose an option that will left you up, but don't just choose, apply action.
— Ben Bereng
What matters isn't what you are, it's who you are, right now, in this moment. What matters are the choices we make. That's what defines us. Nothing else.
— Nicholas Kaufmann, Dying Is My Business
There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.
— Shannon L. Alder
If you can understand and believe that you have made choices that took you to a place you don't like, doesn't it make logical sense thatyou can now make choices that will take you to a place you do like?"..."So now your game becomes one of seeking wisdom and harnessing the power of that wisdom in order to make better choices.
— Andy Andrews, The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You
It would be advisable to realize that we will eventually become whatever it is that we’ve created. And too often what we’ve created is a massive mess.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.
— David Nicholls
Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other things that aren’t all that savory.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?
— Howard Jacobson, J
Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.
— Fawzi Ibrahim
Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those are there, they exist, yes, but most Radchaai, like people most places I have been, do what they’re supposed to because they believe it’s the right thing to do. No one likes killing people.”Strigan made a sardonic noise "No one?""Not many," I amended. "Not enough to fill the Radch's warships".
— Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
Up and down, up and down, a ladder of choices leading to the next choice, and the next, until suddenly you've run out of choices, and ladder, and you find time as rare and thin as air on a mountain. Then it's oops, sorry, turn's over.
— Lauren Oliver, Rooms
Accept who are you and your uniqueness. Define your choices and believes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.
— Mark Batterson, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study?
— Chris Sardegna
If you ever have to choose between loving two people, always pick the second. If you really loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen in love with the second.
— Johnny Depp
Last of all, this book owes perhaps its biggest debt to the ultimate models for Kira and Heron and every other awesome girl in the Partials series: my two daughters. May you always have heroines to inspire you, role models to look up to, and the freedom and courage to make your own choices, no matter how simple or scary or hard or eternal they may be.
— Dan Wells, Ruins
The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.
— Unarine Ramaru
We came to life to leave a mark, either a wrong or right! So what route is your lifestyle taking?
— Unarine Ramaru
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
Life is a movie. You are the director in it. The choices you make, are the things that you will see. After you make a choice, there will be no going back, only simple things that will erase it.
— Victoriya Anissimova
There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take one road, instead of another.
— Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare
You're going to die tomorrow. You're going to die, because I am going to kill you Jimmy
— Erika Lance, The Death of Jimmy
Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.
— Zia Haider Rahman
I chose him. If I chose him, he had to be the right choice. I wouldn’t love him if it weren’t right.
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
Utilizing the Power of Your Heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
We’re making decisions right now that shape our lives. Even indecision is a decision. What’s going on today is a result of the choices we’ve made in the past.
— Toni Sorenson
Our lives are made up of choices. Big ones, small ones, strung together by the thin air of good intentions; a line of dominoes, ready to fall.
— Abigail Haas, Dangerous Boys
The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.
— Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide
— Ahmad Ardalan, The Gardener of Baghdad
I’m not forcing you to do anything. You need to make your own damn decisions . And I'm not playing this game where we ignore reality and pretend to have a normal conversation for a few hours. You need to face reality and stop turning life into a movie. I'm not a puppet in your show. This is real life and you're always trying to ignore it for some cheap fantasy version where no problems exist. That's not noble of you, okay? You're not strong. You're a weak person like the rest of us. You've just learned to excel at avoiding issues. But there are issues . Life has so many freaking issues and if you can't force your own self to face life and make decisions without someone telling you what the hell to do, you're just going to end up another chess piece moved around by others.
— Marilyn Grey, When the City Sleeps
I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them.
— Steve Goodier
One mistake cannot justify another.
— Raheel Farooq
Like the ripples from a stone tossed into the pond from the water’s edge, the effects of our choices extend infinitely outward. Even the smallest of acts reverberates in the ears of unwritten histories.
— Justin Young
The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it’s time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy.
— Deatri King-Bey, For Keeps
Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.
— Jim George
Your choices are your only freedom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices
— Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
People often say that abortion is a woman's choice, and they're right;they choose life the moment they have sex.
— Preston Wagner
Sometimes you gotta let go. It's hard to walk away from something you love, really hard. But there are times when it's the only sensible thing to do.
— Marlene Banks, Son of a Preacherman