In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it
Rachel Van DykenLife 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 transforms you into a princess in the mirror. Even the nights you steal away from an open window, tiptoe silent to the end of the driveway, where darkened headlights and the pull of something unknown beckon. These are all small choices, really. Insignificant as soon as they’re made. Innocent.
But then.
Then there’s a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days. One we’ll search repeatedly for some indication that what we chose was right, some small sign that tells us the truth isn’t nearly as awful as it feels. Or as awful as anyone would think if they knew.
So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep.
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I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone.
Ashley OrmonTags: life truth love decisions choices correction honesty-love-honesty
You get to decide what to worship.
David Foster WallaceTags: life identity decisions worship choices
I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then, like, the absolute second you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half the size. . . . I figured that, on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.
Carol Rifka BruntIntentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
Richie NortonTags: art choice choices intent living-life-to-the-fullest free-agency intentional intentional-living living-life-in-the-present living-with-intent
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis Jr.Tags: fear life choices commitment
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.
OshoTags: happiness love choices capacity-to-be-alone
Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind.
Shannon L. AlderTags: wisdom love religion marriage relationships dating intuition choices commonsense
We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff.
Epiphana LewisTags: motivational inspirational positive choices outlook living-life
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