Life Paths Quotes

“I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I'm starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life's sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful. But since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable--if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“The road to greatness is often sought, but if journeyed with kindness, it is sweetly paved.”
― Tom Althouse

“She was an historian; the past was her butter and bread. But, she thought as she made her way tot he bathroom and turned on the taps, nothing had readied her for the gentle persistent feeling growing stronger through this month, a steady rain in the back of her mind, that there was something she was missing, that she had failed somehow, that there had been a turn, back there in the road of her life, a trailhead, an opening she'd barrelled right past. Somewhere back there had been the right route, the way through, and she had missed it.”
― Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

“Can't you clerk in a store?'
'No.'
'Can't you be a waitress?'
'Would you be anything like you're suggesting to me? Then why, if you're too good, is it all right for me?'
'It's not a question of superiority, Dora. Come on, be a telephone operator and get paid while you work. Or how about ushering in a theater? I have it. You'll get a job in a flower shop. They always do.'
He looked at her so sharply that she knew she must make some answer, and she began to speak as if her words came from another mind, another mouth. 'I am beyond this plane of animal existence. I'm made of different stuff. I lived all this ages ago and I'm through with it for good.”
― Margery Latimer

“As you get older, you have to be willing and able to choose your own path for your life. And once you choose it, you walk it with strength. If you meet evil along the way, know that it is supposed to make you afraid, but it’s not supposed to stop you. You walk through the fear and you walk through the evil, and you don’t let either one become your master.”
― Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster

“It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.”
― Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes

“Your destiny is the result of the choices that you make, which paths you take in life.”
― Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind

“The paths you walk in life should always be by design, either consciously or subconsciously.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game

“How to get back on the right track can be quite simple if you know what you want.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game

“You are not for everyone. But you are for someone.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“The paths that you take lead to the life you make.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“The choice is to create your desired life-path or be a prisoner of fate.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“If we cannot row, we can steer... We need a rod to point out the way as much as a staff to support us in it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Golden Alphabet: An Exposition of Psalm 119

“The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for myself, I could conquer it.

What a gift that was. What a gift that still is.”
― Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood