With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.
It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.
Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.
Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
Every choice you make supersedes and overrides every other choice you make.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.
Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.
We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
Between this day and the next you will give your life to something. The decision on what that will be will shape your destiny.
There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.
Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance.
We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.
Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'
Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.
It is human choices that move events.
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
If you make the choice to just go with the flow, that is a choice to make a difference in a negative way.
We make choices every single day of our lives and those choices mean we must give up something in exchange for another. In economics it's called an 'opportunity cost.'
