Desicions Quotes

“absolute freedome doesn't exist, what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself that decision”
― Paolo Coelho the zahir

“The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Imagine yourself near the end of your life. You are relaxing in a rocking chair reflecting on the decision you presently want to make. As the older, wiser you thinks about the outcome of your choice, ask yourself three simple questions.

1. Did it cause harm?
2. Did it bring about good?
3. How did it shape the person I became?

The Rocking Chair Test helps you to take a long view of your options. After imagining your answers to those questions, you should know better which way to go.”
― Steve Goodier

“Each decision that we make comes with a hidden price. We're never told what it is we may be asked to sacrifice.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“I'm in love. I don't want to be in love with Jacob Coote. I want to be in love with John Barton and have people look upon me with envy, but John doesn't make me feel like this. I'm beginning to realise that things don't turn out the way you want them to.
and sometimes, when they don't, they can turn out just a little bit better.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“You have no idea what that would do to my life,” I pleaded quietly.
“No. I don't,” he admitted easily, but with growing outrage. “And neither do you. You go around making these monumental decisions about what other people should know or not know about their own lives. But you don't really have any more idea how it will turn out than I do! You just do what you think is safest and then crawl around hoping no one will find out and blame you later if things go wrong!”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“(...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours. And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing that you could be the autor instead.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead