149 Quotes About Options

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.You can climb it and cross to the other side.You can go around it.You can dig under it.You can fly over it.You can blow it up.You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there.You can turn around and go back the way you came.Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.

White people--guys especially--always imagine another way because their paths have always been saturated with forks. For Abuela and mi mamá, there was no fork. No other way.

Make your own choices before anyone else makes them for you and way before the house lights are lowered.

This is the standard to determine the excellence, not the comparison to existing options. Knowing the standard, imagine two situations. Starting with 123 dishes to pick for dinner. Having no standard will lead you to compare option with option. But if it happens you have the standard, irrelevant alternatives go out of the game almost immediately. Options get compared to the standard, not other options. If options are not good enough to satisfy the standard, they get out.

If it's true that life has options, it's also true those choices are full of fast-twitch muscles.

I know from our talks, you worry about making the right choices in your life. I cannot nor should anyone, tell you what to do. For that, my dear, you must listen to your own heart. And, never fear, it is speaking to you.Perhaps I can help a little though, by showing you how I found my own way.

A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.

Whenever you are given two choices, look out for the third option.

I’m not brave; it’s just that all other choices have been thrown out the window.