#choices

If you want change and don’t make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#choices #let-go #life #change

Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#awareness #blame #choice #choices #empowerment

Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don’t even know we’re making, they’re so dull or routine or automatic. Some are beyond explanation—like my mom choosing Wyatt’s memory over Dad and me. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#dating #family-relationships #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk

Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#choices #funny

Sometimes I have the feeling that what takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience identical to what we never try, and yet we spend our lives in a process of choosing and rejecting and selecting, in drawing a line to separate these identical things and make of our story a unique story that we can remember and that can be recounted, either now or at the end of time, and this be erased or swept away, the annulment of everything we are and do. We pour all our intelligence and our feelings and our enthusiasm into the task of discriminating between things that will all be made equal, if they haven't already been, and that's why we're so full of regrets and lost opportunities, of confirmations and reaffirmations and opportunities grasped, when the truth is that nothing is affirmed and everything is constantly in the process of being lost. ↗

— Javier Marías

#equality

If a child’s choice is to be honest with themselves and their friends, get involved in helping others, and treating others the way they would want to be treated, they will be able to make intelligent choices about their life. This is the guide that will help them to decide their future. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#choices #honesty #intelligence

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

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness? ↗

— Maya Banks

#choices-and-consequences #consequences #life #unhappiness #life

And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts. ↗

— André Aciman

#love-and-loss #unrequited-love #love

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them. ↗

— Sean Covey

#consequences #responsibility #teen