Alice Waters Quotes

We all have to make choices in life.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Don't try and do the right thing, because there is no right thing; there's just the right thing for you.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

We all are just people, and something happens, and we make a decision as a result when something happens, and it could be a poor choice or a good choice or anywhere in between. But we make that decision in the moment, and we live with the consequences.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.