Quotes about Choices

No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.

But first, become aware of the choices that you are making in every moment. The more you become aware of your choices, the more you will make choices that are spontaneously correct — both for you and for those around you.

Heavy thoughts don't have to cloud your day. You have good choices for how to lift yourself out of them.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind … what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.

Philosophy's purpose is to illuminate the ways our soul has been infected by unsound beliefs, untrained tumultuous desires, and dubious life choices and preferences that are unworthy of us. Self-scrutiny applied with kindness is the main antidote.

What, then, is your own? The way you live your life.