{"quotes":[{"text":"You are creating through your choices, even now. Choose wisely.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["being-wise","choices","choosing"],"id":3086,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accept","agree","agreement","bottom","choice","choices","choose","choosing","create","created","decisions","dig","dug","follow","following","fool","foolish","foolishness","gullibility","gullible","hole","holes","invitation","invitations","life","pit","realization","realize","rock-bottom","wisdom","wise"],"id":8006,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"He had his choice, and he liked the worst.","author":"John Ciardi","tags":["bad-taste","choice","choosing","poor-taste","taste"],"id":9065,"author_id":"John+Ciardi"},{"text":"Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.","author":"Ryan Lilly","tags":["choices","choosing","choosing-your-life","choosing-your-path","doors","gratitude","intersection","life","life-lessons","success","thankful","thankfulness"],"id":17830,"author_id":"Ryan+Lilly"},{"text":"I think timing is better left up to God to decide then religious leaders. I once met a man that brought his wife flowers in the hospital. They held hands, kissed and were as affectionate as any cute couple could be. They were both in their eighties. I asked them how long they were married. I expected them to tell me fifty years or longer. To my surprise, they said only five years. He then began to explain to me that he was married thirty years to someone that didn’t love him, and then he remarried a second time only to have his second wife die of cancer, two years later. I looked at my patient (his wife) sitting in the wheelchair next to him smiling. She added that she had been widowed two times. Both of her marriages lasted fifteen years. I was curious, so I asked them why they would even bother pursuing love again at their age. He looked at me with astonishment and said, “Do you really think that you stop looking for a soulmate at our age? Do you honestly believe that God would stop caring about how much I needed it still, just because I am nearing the end of my life? No, he left the best for last. I have lived through hell, but if I only get five years of happiness with this woman then it was worth the years of struggle I have been through.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["choosing","elderly","grace","happiness","love","marriage","misleading","patience","patients","perspective","relationships","see","soulmates","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com","struggles","timing","true-love","truth","understand","waiting","wisdom"],"id":33940,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["chance","change","choice","choosing","desire","life","priorities"],"id":35961,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["acknowledge","admit","choice","choices","choosing","chose","correct","decide","deciding","decisions","easier","easy","ethical","fail","failed","failure","fool","foolish","moral","right","wisdom","wise"],"id":46953,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accepted","choice","choices","choosing","consequence","consequences","discernment","fallout","invitations","invite","natural-consequences","outcome","rejected","result","results","wisdom"],"id":59959,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is ‘it will probably be okay,’ then run the other way because what you’re contemplating is not a good choice.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["bad-choices","choice","choices","choosing","doubts","good-choices","life","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","uncertainty"],"id":60214,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["choices","choosing","effected","friends","friendships","impacted","influenced","relational","relationships","rub","rub-off","rubbing","social"],"id":63126,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}