the choices we make will define us

Broken hearts hurt but they make you strong.

– Kimya Dawson

Our lives are so hopelessly entangled in the choices of others,

we can never have full control over our destiny

 or fate or purpose or whatever you want to call it.

 The choices we make will define us, of course, but so do

the choices of everyone around us whether we know them or not. 

 – David Bowick

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can’t buy.

 – Anonymous

 

Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly

until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

 ― Ellen DeGeneres



My mind was a record playing at the wrong speed,

spinning back over events I wanted to forget. 

 – A Yellow Raft In Blue Water

Sometimes, when one person is missing,

the whole world seems depopulated.

--- Unknown

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

— Harper Lee

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,

 but what is woven into the lives of others.

– Pericles

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

– Victor Borge

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

 ― Confucius