If you ever have to choose between loving two people, always pick the second. If you really loved the first, you wouldn’t have fallen in love with the second.

You build your reality from the desires and thoughts that you focused upon.

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn’t, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can...

You can’t judge your parenting by the choices of your kids.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {…} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet...

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...

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and...

Each of us has empty spaces in our heart that go through life being filled temporarily, by the various people we meet along the way. The trick is to find what needs to remain permanently...

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn’t experience. But,...

If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.

When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person makes it obvious that the first will never fulfill you, unless the second...

Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those are there, they exist, yes, but most Radchaai, like people most places I have been, do what they’re supposed to...

His ambition was not to become wealthy or to be well known, an image which society for some reason dictates each individual should prescribe to, instead his only ambition was to be at peace with...

Opportunity will only meet you in the domain of your chosen attitude.

If you think you know what your purpose is, but can never seem to gain satisfaction from it, then it’s probably not the purpose you’re destined for.

You are your choices

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...

Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.

What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?

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

Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.

That’s one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.

Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits...

The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The...

Whether we’re on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

I’d like to think we all tried. We held out probably a little longer. But the choices at some point just become overwhelming.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

Life is made of moments. and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact. Skipping class in favor of a taste of freedom, picking a prom dress because of the way it...

You’ll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.

As you explore new opportunities and new directions, consider this:• How do I want to make a difference in the world?• How do I want to be remembered?• What kind of legacy do I want...

People who make mistakes are in the best position to make better choices.

Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.

We can create a different future – one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time.

There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Your life plays out as a reflection of your genetic makeup and potentiality as expressed through your environment and choices. Love yourself enough to create an environment in your life that is conducive to the...

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh...

When a person thinks you are too good for them, they create a wall without even taking a chance. The best life that God has in store for a person is often thrown away because...

You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite...

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it — in our own small ways — by every choice...

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes–new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn’t lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole...

They say our suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition; just accept it. But the greatest human skill is that of a choice maker.

I’m embarrassed we had to do it, … The blame starts with me. We made choices, and they obviously didn’t turn out.

By valuing its Christian roots, Europe will be able to give a secure direction to the choices of its citizens and peoples, it will strengthen their awareness of belonging to a common civilization and it...

No matter what your origin or beliefs, rather adolescent or full grown. Thoughts are scribed in pencil but actions are carved in stone

Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choice to make a difference in your life at any time you wish.