Life Paths Quotes

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.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

My parents didn't do office hours, and they did not do vacations, so if you had a problem, you could always come around. I watched them and thought, 'OK, this is what you are supposed to do.' I was very engaged in my local primary school and when I went to secondary school and to university. And one thing led to another, and here I am.

When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

I think if I had joined the Army early, I would not have been able to appear in the drama 'Boys over Flowers' and had such a happy 20s.

Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it's like, 'Wow, I can't believe that person was ever really in my life.' But people are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

The Bible says we must choose two ways of life.

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things.