Peter Hedges Quotes

I don't like to tell people what they should or shouldn't do.

So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

It's my life and my death.

I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.

Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of laying out his existence is the best.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.