#choices

"As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."

"Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?"

"It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be."

"When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose."

"It’s me and you, or me and knitting. Don’t make me choose. Ugh, #love."

"At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become."

"All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now."

"With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair."

"We are the sum total of the decisions we have made."

"You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?"

"Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love."

"In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did."

"But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,"that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise."

"I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore."

"When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you."

"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."

"To be too knowing is a downfall."

"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."

"I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."

"You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals."