All Quotes By Tag: Choices

“If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually be able to convert your time into any product you want.”

“Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its survival, and Batman delivers. This belief prevents parents from letting those young adults actually live their lives.”

“The easy path is seldom the right path.”

“I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost.”

“How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.”

“The secret is not following the right path, it’s following that right path to the end. Don’t quit, my friend, until you’ve arrived.”

“Being broke is part of the journey. Staying broke is a fucking choice.”

“You alone can create the change you seel. But how? By accepting things as they are, you allow yourself to make apt choices.”

“You have a choice, you can be someone who makes it happen or someone who lets it happen.”

“We are the ghost of the choices we didn’t make and shredded skin of the ones we did!”

“Consider: What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?”

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

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

“Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.”

“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.”