Jessamyn West Quotes

We all have to make choices in life.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.

The small day-to-day decisions will determine the course of your lives.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.