choices

Your destiny lies in your hands and can be molded with each passing day by the choices you make

The product of your life depends on your choices

Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person__ mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I'm starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life's sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful. But since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable--if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.

He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.

We only have one life and two choices: sadness and regret for a past we cannot change or happiness for every moment we can choose how to live.

...in life, a man only comes to a few crossroads that can shape his future for good or bad. Sometimes one recognized these crossroads, and could stop and think about the right decision. But other times, the choice could only be seen with the clarity that came afterward.

A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act.

Have no regrets in life because of the choices you make. Good or bad, they are a learning experience, to help you grow. The only regret in life, is to never make a choice at all.

For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!

Effective life management isn__ about finding more time to fill; it__ about recognizing you don__ have to do anything you do not choose to do. Hiding a choice behind a __ave to_ is irresponsible. Everything filling the white space in your life is there because you chose to put it there. We always have the power to say, __o._ We just need to be ready to live with the consequences.

Love is more than desire. It__ more than passion and moonlight and poetry. Love is a choice you make; it__ things you do. Love is holding hands when your wife__ morning sickness is so bad she wants to die. It__ forgiving when you__e mad, and listening to her when you want to talk. It__ rubbing her feet when she__ tired and you want a whole lot more. It__ seeing each other at your worst and choosing to overlook what you know is true because you believe they can be better. It__ doing the right thing for the other person. Even when it__ hard. Especially when it__ hard. That is love, Jaime.

The story of your past doesn__ have to become the story of your life.

She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

Questions that begin __f I had/if I had not_ have no true answers. You can never know how your actions may have impacted Master Jason__ fate. And if you could know, that knowledge would not change the past. The only good that can come of these musings is that which you have already found: in taking the lessons of the past, such as they may be, to guide your choices in the present.