3,997 Quotes About Choices

You never want one thing at any given moment of life. Your mind always comes up with at least two choices. If your limbic system wins, the choice you make seems to be pleasurable at first but in the long run ends up being the wrong one. And if your prefrontal cortex wins the choice you make may appear rough at first, but in the long run it turns out to be the right one.

The easy way out is the choice of the myopic.

Decisive is definite.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices.

When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should I," or even "perhaps." I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate "YES!

We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, marry the wrong man because we cannot let ourselves be happy, board the wrong train because we would prefer not to reach the destination.

Sometimes the choices others make take ours from us. Do you understand?

You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did.