…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. "
"What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?
Tags: decisions action actions sacrifice
We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.
Ken LevineTags: life decisions consequences choices
Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...
José N. HarrisTags: pain decisions waiting decision-making
When you walk into a chocolate store, suddenly the most difficult decision you will ever have to make in your life, is which chocolates to pick! It is pure torture! Especially when you are in Belgium surrounded by Belgian chocolates!
C. JoyBell C.Tags: decisions humour torture belgium belgian-chocolates chocolates
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
Shauna NiequistTags: life goals decisions sacrifice
Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you're an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to steer clear of people who are harmful to your health.
Andrea LavinthalTags: growing-up family decisions adulthood family-relationships
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.
J.K. RowlingTags: certainty decisions doubts
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
J.K. RowlingTags: certainty decisions doubts
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.
Jodi PicoultTags: love ethics morals decisions law answer
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
Anne EnrightTags: writing inspiration decisions disease
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