Life's Choices Quotes

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

There are many paths but only one journey.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

For sure, life takes many twists and turns, and one never knows what the future might hold.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

The idea that all we have is everything that's come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, 'Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?'

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

Life has many turns.