Quotes About Decision

Nekhludoff laughed as he compared himself to the ass in the fable who, while deciding which of the two bales of hay before him he should have his meal from, starved himself.

Lihat dan kau tahu, jika aku ada di jalan yang salah dan kita tak akan pernah bertemu lagi

Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speak—because I'm happy now, happy in hope, anyway… . And then?… . But I must! I must! I must! Away with weakness!

What are you talking about?' cried Lukashka. 'We must go through the middle gates, of course.

No," he said to himself, "however good that life of simplicity and toil may be, I cannot go back to it. I love HER.

Decision it was only necessary for him to concentrate his attention for a few moments and the spirit moved him, and the best possible decision presented itself as though an inner voice had told him what to do.

And at that moment Pierre felt that Hélène not only could, but must, be his wife, and that it could not be otherwise. He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen.

To settle the matter in his own mind was one thing but to carry it out was another.

It all depends with how much judgment and knowledge the thing's done.

Understand that this isn't love. I have been in love but this is not the same. This is not my feeling, but some external force taking possession of me. I left because I decided it could not be, you understand, like a happiness that doesn't exist on earth; but I have struggled with myself and I see that without it there is no life.

All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance. She had come with the intention of staying two days, if all went well. But in the evening, during the game, she made up her mind that she would go home next day.

Cowardice is knowing what you should do and then not doing it. Confucius

Para que se tome alguma decisão na vida conjugal, é necessário ou uma discordância completa entre os cônjuges, ou uma harmonia amorosa. Quando as relações entre os cônjuges são indeterminadas, e não há nem uma coisa nem outra, é impossível decidir qualquer questão.

Although throughout these painful moments it had never occurred to him to seek guidance from religion, now that his decision coincided - so he thought - with the requirements of religion, the fact of there being a religious sanction for his decision gave him entire satisfaction and some comfort.

because no one knew that she had only a few days ago refused a man whom she perhaps loved, and refused him because she trusted another.

The question of other religions and their relations to Divinity I have no right to decide, and no possibility of deciding.

Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, she had left her tiny baby and a sick child, to come and hear Kitty's fate, which was to be decided that day.

You are not to be guarded in your actions either by what has been or what will be, but only by what it is your own duty to do.

Levin resolved the first question at once, with extraordinary ease, though it had seemed so difficult to him before.

That's just the point, my dear fellow, that cases may arise when the Government does not fulfill the will of its citizens and then Society announces its own will.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Between the thinking and the doing of a deed, there was a line to be crossed.

It was the wiser course, she thought, to deny the evidence of her senses, than her good sense.

cult? When I was declining the commissariat of home