decisions

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ccc3c97	Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.	cry crying decisions	C.S. Lewis
270ed29	You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.	choice choices decision decisions destiny inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living	Roy T. Bennett
80fc4db	The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.	decisions	Elizabeth Gilbert
db3bc82	Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.	decisions inspirational life	Mhairi McFarlane
92630f4	Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.	decisions evolution	Jared Diamond
8343ddc	"Was I interrupting? I thought it was over." Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through whatever magic was between us, he'd known I was about to say no. "At least Feyre seemed to think so."	decisions feyre new-adult-romance rhysand sarah-j-maas	Sarah J. Maas
33e8ebc	"Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking."	decisions influence life money opinions success	Napoleon Hill
6029349	Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.	choice decisions	J.K. Rowling
4b8e679	The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.	decisions ethics law love morals	Jodi Picoult
f9b8d0f	He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.	decisions doubts	J.K. Rowling
51e5278	I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.	consequences decisions responsibility the-dead-girls-dance	Rachel Caine
8fc7523	You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!	decisions firm honesty judgement motives muddled	Enid Blyton
b7d42f8	The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.	decisions	Jim Butcher
b4ed666	A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.	decisions gender sad struggle women	Audre Lorde
df6a989	In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it's the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.	decisions future leave-behind no past path yes	Jodi Picoult
e1c3bb1	It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?	decisions good-and-bad good-and-evil	Anthony Burgess
40a2fb5	Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.	decisions doubts	J.K. Rowling
b2a573d	I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.	decisions inspirational life	Nora Roberts
c792ade	Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you've set and followed your priorities.	choices christian decisions followed priorities reflect reflection set well	Elizabeth George
84204dd	"Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her. Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction." Reverse the direction?" Yes, turn it around." How would you do that?" You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad." But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?" You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad."	decisions inspirational right wrong	Jeanne DuPrau
4ef014f	There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.	decisions ideas life significance thinking	Alain de Botton
229fe92	I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive. (83)	decisions survival	Ron Rash
cc0250b	Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour's meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step. I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight?	decisions life self-fulfillment	W. Somerset Maugham
d839fda	That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.	decisions future lessons past philosophy time	James A. Owen
075a85f	The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.	decisions luck	Bono
e7f7dd5	One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.	decisions	J. Courtney Sullivan
68f0127	She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.	choices decisions planned-parenthood	Jodi Picoult
f1afd0e	[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place.	asperger-s asperger-s-syndrome aspergers aspergers-syndrome autism check-out decision decisions fear glasses jump jumped money noise overwhelmed panic people quickly recognise sensory-stimulation shopping stuff supermarket touch wallet	Andrew Wilson
7e2126a	If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.	choices decisions right role warhol wrong	Andy Warhol
df1d25c	One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.	decisions goals identity life respponsibilities values	Terri Apter
5aa6915	Don't you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.	care decisions elder eldest expectations hope strength weakness	Beth Revis
91ff8bc	It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.	decisions emotions fear inconfidence life rationalism safety weakness	George Eliot
e32ccb0	However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world. It's those unhappy, unwanted children, who then grew into angry adults, who have caused the great majority of humankind's miseries. They are the ones who make states feel feral; streets dangerous; relationships violent.	children decisions woman	Caitlin Moran
51fe3e5	Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.	big-picture choice choices choices-and-consequences decisions life life-lessons maturation wisdom	J. Courtney Sullivan
c7191ab	What exactly did Simone Weil mean when she said, When you have to make a decision in life, about what you should do, do what will cost you the most. Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who these people?	decisions difficulty implications life	Sigrid Nunez
be369e1	At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now? No other question is relevant, no other question is meaningful, no other question has any importance to your soul.	decisions decisions-in-life fork-in-the-road how-to-decide juncture love making-decisions relationships which-way-to-go	Neale Donald Walsch
2ffabb6	I keep seeing my life darting off in the different directions it could have taken, as chance and circumstance, temperament and desire, open and close, open and close gates, routes, roadways. And yet there feels like an inevitability to who I am--just as of all the planets in all the universes, planet blue, this planet Earth, is the one that is home.	decisions directions inevitability life personality	Jeanette Winterson
d9a94d3	Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them	decisions life self-discovery	Ann Packer
d37f9bb	I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.	decisions initiative	Mark Helprin
4abf3a7	"Decisions are difficult for many reasons, some reaching down into the very socket of being. John Gardner, in his novel Grendel, tells of a wise man who sums up his meditation on life's mysteries in two simple but terrible postulates: "Things fade: alternatives exclude." Of the first postulate, death, I have already spoken. The second, "alternatives exclude," is an important key to understanding why decision is difficult. Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating or killing other options (the root of the word decide means "slay," as in homicide or suicide). Thus, Thelma clung to the infinitesimal chance that she might once again revive her relationship with her lover, renunciation of that possibility signifying diminishment and death."	death decisions	Irvin D. Yalom
5a48681	Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.	decisions ethics violence	Peter Singer
fe05a75	I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.	decisions habits	Rebecca Goldstein

ccc3c97

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

cry crying decisions

C.S. Lewis

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You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

choice choices decision decisions destiny inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living

Roy T. Bennett

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The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

decisions

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.

decisions inspirational life

Mhairi McFarlane

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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

decisions evolution

Jared Diamond

8343ddc

"Was I interrupting? I thought it was over." Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through whatever magic was between us, he'd known I was about to say no. "At least Feyre seemed to think so."

decisions feyre new-adult-romance rhysand sarah-j-maas

Sarah J. Maas

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"Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking."

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Napoleon Hill

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Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

choice decisions

J.K. Rowling

4b8e679

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

decisions ethics law love morals

Jodi Picoult

f9b8d0f

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

decisions doubts

J.K. Rowling

51e5278

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

consequences decisions responsibility the-dead-girls-dance

Rachel Caine

8fc7523

You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!

decisions firm honesty judgement motives muddled

Enid Blyton

b7d42f8

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

decisions

Jim Butcher

b4ed666

A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

decisions gender sad struggle women

Audre Lorde

df6a989

In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it's the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.

decisions future leave-behind no past path yes

Jodi Picoult

e1c3bb1

It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

decisions good-and-bad good-and-evil

Anthony Burgess

40a2fb5

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

decisions doubts

J.K. Rowling

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I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.

decisions inspirational life

Nora Roberts

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Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you've set and followed your priorities.

choices christian decisions followed priorities reflect reflection set well

Elizabeth George

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"Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her. Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction." Reverse the direction?" Yes, turn it around." How would you do that?" You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad." But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?" You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad."

decisions inspirational right wrong

Jeanne DuPrau

4ef014f

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

decisions ideas life significance thinking

Alain de Botton

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I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive. (83)

decisions survival

Ron Rash

cc0250b

Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour's meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step. I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight?

decisions life self-fulfillment

W. Somerset Maugham

d839fda

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.

decisions future lessons past philosophy time

James A. Owen

075a85f

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.

decisions luck

Bono

e7f7dd5

One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

decisions

J. Courtney Sullivan

68f0127

She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.

choices decisions planned-parenthood

Jodi Picoult

f1afd0e

[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place.

asperger-s asperger-s-syndrome aspergers aspergers-syndrome autism check-out decision decisions fear glasses jump jumped money noise overwhelmed panic people quickly recognise sensory-stimulation shopping stuff supermarket touch wallet

Andrew Wilson

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If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.

choices decisions right role warhol wrong

Andy Warhol

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One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

decisions goals identity life respponsibilities values

Terri Apter

5aa6915

Don't you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.

care decisions elder eldest expectations hope strength weakness

Beth Revis

91ff8bc

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

decisions emotions fear inconfidence life rationalism safety weakness

George Eliot

e32ccb0

However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world. It's those unhappy, unwanted children, who then grew into angry adults, who have caused the great majority of humankind's miseries. They are the ones who make states feel feral; streets dangerous; relationships violent.

children decisions woman

Caitlin Moran

51fe3e5

Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.

big-picture choice choices choices-and-consequences decisions life life-lessons maturation wisdom

J. Courtney Sullivan

c7191ab

What exactly did Simone Weil mean when she said, When you have to make a decision in life, about what you should do, do what will cost you the most. Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who these people?

decisions difficulty implications life

Sigrid Nunez

be369e1

At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now? No other question is relevant, no other question is meaningful, no other question has any importance to your soul.

decisions decisions-in-life fork-in-the-road how-to-decide juncture love making-decisions relationships which-way-to-go

Neale Donald Walsch

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I keep seeing my life darting off in the different directions it could have taken, as chance and circumstance, temperament and desire, open and close, open and close gates, routes, roadways. And yet there feels like an inevitability to who I am--just as of all the planets in all the universes, planet blue, this planet Earth, is the one that is home.

decisions directions inevitability life personality

Jeanette Winterson

d9a94d3

Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them

decisions life self-discovery

Ann Packer

d37f9bb

I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

decisions initiative

Mark Helprin

4abf3a7

"Decisions are difficult for many reasons, some reaching down into the very socket of being. John Gardner, in his novel Grendel, tells of a wise man who sums up his meditation on life's mysteries in two simple but terrible postulates: "Things fade: alternatives exclude." Of the first postulate, death, I have already spoken. The second, "alternatives exclude," is an important key to understanding why decision is difficult. Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating or killing other options (the root of the word decide means "slay," as in homicide or suicide). Thus, Thelma clung to the infinitesimal chance that she might once again revive her relationship with her lover, renunciation of that possibility signifying diminishment and death."

death decisions

Irvin D. Yalom

5a48681

Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.

decisions ethics violence

Peter Singer

fe05a75

I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.

decisions habits

Rebecca Goldstein