#choice

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#life #nonconformity #life

الحياة لعبة عنيفة هاذية . الحياة هى أن ترمى بنفسك من مظلة وأن تجازف , ان تسقط وتنهض من كبوتك الحياة . الحياة هى هى أن تتسلق الجبال لتحاكى الرغبة فى تسلق قمة النفس , وان لم تتوصل الى ذلك , فعليك أن تعيش قانعا ذليلا. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #life

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close. ↗

— José Saramago

#life

Let's live to regret this" (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3) ↗

— Martin Riggs

#life-living #regret #life

We often think that there is just one way to look at things - the way we always have. In fact, there are an infinite number of ways to look at most everything. An open mind allows for a multitude of perspectives from which to choose in any given moment. That suppleness of mind allows for true choice, and opens us to a whole new realm of possibility. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#open-mind #perspective #possibility #supple-mind #life

If I'd been a cowboy, it might've ended well. Somewhere on the ramble, I'm sure I'd have to sell My guns along the highway. My coins to the table To make a gambler's double, I'd double debts to pay. Prob'ly shrink and slink away, It mightn't've ended well. What If I'd been a sailor? I think it might've ended well. From August to May For a searat of man drifting through eternal blue, aboard the finest Debris. I might've called the shanties. From daybreak to storm's set, lines stay Taught, over rhythm unbroken. But, oh, there's a schism unspoken, a mighty calling of the lee. An absentminded Pirate, unaccustomed to the sea; To the land, a traitor. I think it mightn't've ended well. What might've worked for me? What might've ended well? Soldier, to bloody sally forth through hell? Teacher of glorious stories to tell? Man of gold, or stores to sell? Lover to a gentle belle? Maybe a camel; A seashell. What mightn't've been a life where it mightn't've ended well? ↗

— Dylan Thomas McCall

#choices #choices-and-consequences #doubting #fate #life

Ever wonder if you've done the right thing?" I asked him finally. "Frequently," he replied. "Legalities notwithstanding, to not wonder indicates a dangerous lack of awareness of the near-infinite array of choices presented by life. More tea? ↗

— Karen Lord

#life

The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them. ↗

— Will Davis

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Time heals all wounds or Time wounds all heels. Take your pick... oh, life's small choices. ↗

— Carol Morgan

#resentment #time #life

One of the most foolish of all human philosophies, is to believe that we all have an unavoidable destiny. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#decisions #destiny #life #life