All Quotes By Tag: Choices-and-consequences

“Envision life as you’re juggling 6 balls. The balls are called faith, work, family, health, friends, and integrity. But one day, you realize that work is a rubber ball. If dropped, it will bounce back. The other 5 balls faith, family, health, friends, & integrity are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be surely scuffed, nicked, or even shattered. Grasp this concept and you will have the beginnings of balance in your life.”

“If I knew how and where to sacrifice myself, I must know how and where to save myself.”

“Life is like a library: you can borrow whichever experiences you deem pleasant, and easily return those that bring you pain.”

“For me, better is energy-giving, flourishing, stretching, thriving, making progress one step at a time.”

“When we’re brave enough to try something else we can often change what we understand to be possible or worth doing, and ultimately who we believe ourselves to be.”

“By acting or performing our way into a new way of thinking, we can sometimes unearth elements of us that we didn’t believe were possible.”

“Better is about believing you can be – and do – more than you thought. And at the heart of becoming better at anything is the ability to make better choices.”

“One reason the concept of becoming better can scare us is that it requires us to step out of a place that we recognize and have possibly grown comfortable with.”

“The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk.”

“Sometimes in life, a sudden situation, a moment in time, alters your whole life, forever changes the road ahead.”

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

“The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.”

“Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.”

“But you just choose because that’s where you want to be. Not because you were trying to do somebody else’s job. You hear me?”

“Zakath stared at the floor. ‘I suddenly feel very helpless,’ he admitted, ‘and I don’t like the feeling. I’ve been rather effectively dethroned, you know. This morning I was the Emperor of the largest nation on earth; this afternoon, I’m going to be a vagabond.’You might find it refreshing,’ Silk told him lightly.Shut up, Kheldar,’ Zakath said almost absently. He looked back at Polgara. ‘You know something rather peculiar?’What’s that?’Even if I hadn’t given my word, I’d still have to go to Kell. It’s almost like a compulsion. I feel as if I’m being driven, and my driver is a blindfolded girl who’s hardly more than a child.’There are rewards,’ she told him.Such as what?’Who knows? Happiness, perhaps.’He laughed ironically. ‘Happiness has never been a driving ambition of mine, Lady Polgara, not for a long time now.’You may have to accept it anyway,’ She smiled. ‘We aren’t allowed to choose our rewards any more than we are our tasks. Those decisions are made for us.”