Choices

The question is not “Can you make a difference?” You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.

—Julia Butterfly Hill

Sometimes the decisions that seem the most illogical at the time, later on turn out to be the best decisions of our lives.

—Madeleine Beckett in Color of Loneliness

You’re the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

—Veronica Roth in The Transfer

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood—and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

—Jessamyn West

You have to choose the life you want. You have to take action and realize that you create your own destiny by making choices and sticking to them.

—Robin Bielman in Wild About Her Wingman

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

—Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie