Life Quotes

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

~ Mary Calmes

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

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

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

~ Steve Knox

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

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