#choices

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#death

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life #mistakes #life

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#day #inspirational #life #live #motivational

Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#heroes #paths #grace

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#choices #free-will #future #god #life

In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth. ↗

— Helen Quist Milligan

#goodness #love #relationships #beauty

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices. ↗

— Martha Beck

#bank #brain #choices #entire #everything

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#choices #drastic #had #i #losing

Life is a matter of really tough choices. ↗

— Joe Biden

#life #life is a #matter #really #tough

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#accepting #choices #define #either #every