The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love… the faith that you have – that’s what’s going to define your life.

the people you spend the most time with will shape your future irrevocably, and so you must choose them wisely.

But you don’t choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you’re willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.

Who you know determines who you are — how you feel, how you act, and what you achieve.

YOUR values determine your behavior, not what you think she wants, not what you think others want, but what is best for you and best for the relationship.

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

it’s not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

It's not what's happening to you now or what's happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

Your decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default