It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. “I’ll take the shoes,” she said firmly.

I think about pinball, and how being a kid’s like being shot up the firing lane and there’s no veering left or right; you’re just sort of propelled. But once you clear the top, like...

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

We will provide a competitive, integrated mix of local, long distance, Internet and high-speed data services, providing more choices, new and improved services, more competitive prices and more convenience for millions of consumers,

I think you should listen to your heart. It is there the True One speaks to us most.

Your choices are very essential; without a better choice, you are risking to drive a destination whose name you know, but address you forget!

Most Americans do not enter the work financially prepared to analyze a broad array of choices and make the best possible asset allocation. Companies have tried hard to teach them. But the bottom line is...

Your everyday supermarket now carries roughly 40,000 items – twice as many as a decade ago. There are so many products, so many brands and sub-species of those brands, that no consumer is safe from...

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

You must want a thing enough to chase for it.

She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable....

There are always consequences to wrong choices.

What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices—your mistakes—if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live...

He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would...

You don’t choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

I won’t tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world’s voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has...

Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant...

Choices enable temptation.

You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don’t like yourself, you’ll never be truly happy.

Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.

It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them.

Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in.

Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you’re spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

The only love you have to prove in life is your love of God and helping others. Anyone that can’t see that has proven themselves to be unworthy of your time because why would you...

I know I won’t be going to Florida State. I’ve decided to cut them from my choices. It wasn’t really anything against them, but it just didn’t feel right.

What we do,our choices, that’s what defines us.

You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone’s poor choices.

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or...

Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can’t even see straight.

You won’t starve, R. In my short life I made so many choices just because I thought they were required, but my dad was right: there’s no rule book for the world. It’s in our...

It’s not about making the right choice. It’s about making a choice and making it right.

Hi, I’m from the future, and I’m here to destroy you.” But that is irrational. The future me isn’t out to destroy me, because the me of my past already did a thorough job demolishing...

If you know the road is steepy with many potholes and curves ahead, you will be informed to drive the car at a required speed. Knowledge is a guide you need to make choices in...

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

May there not be some subconscious jealousy that motivates our reactions to other people? Why do we eat chocolate sundaes when we know that we should reduce? Are we free from the influence of parental...

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Life, as I’ve learned, fails to be a concrete, concise package that can easily be wrapped up and contained. Life is full of messy, unpredictable circumstances that test not only our characters, but the people...

No matter what choice you make, it doesn’t define you. Not forever. People can make bad choices and change their minds and hearts and do good things later; just as people can make good choices...

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they...

You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you’re some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?

Do not be so attached to life otherwise you will end up struggling for life. Choice is yours.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you...

Sometimes love is not enough.

When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour or smile and look for rainbows.