ThinkWhen did it go wrong?The break-in?No, before that.The party?That was part of it, but that wasn’t when it started.Zack?Of course, yeah, it would be easy to say it was Zack. But that’s not it, is...

Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that...

In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.

… I’ve run out of options. Stay with the lying psycho or work for the other lying psycho.

Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.

Environment provides us with many cultures. From each we identify our beliefs that give us our values. From our values we pick up our choices and our choices bring out our character. Our characters make...

You can choose when and when not to be stopped… Choose to be stopped after you die… when your work is done and done well.

If you don’t expect much you can’t be disappointed.

It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I...

Can’t it be stopped?” said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren’t digging into her.Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning,” Maddy said. “If...

Define your life,Define your world,Define your passions,Define your goals.

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

Every day of your life, you are faced with opportunities. Unfortunately, the choices that face you are not heroic choices. They are bamboo tree choices. They are small, but progressive choices that steer you in...

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently...

Your future can be changed by one decision. One good thing can offset a mountain of bad. But you need to choose.

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.