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Quotes About Decision

Ya yaÅŸamay? ya da anlatmay? seçmek gerek.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.
~ Jean Rhys
but it seemed to me that when you are in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
~ Unknown
I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.
~ Jeanette Winterson
What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?" (205)
~ Jeanette Winterson
If I want to say no, I will, but for the right reasons. If I want to say yes, I will, but for the right reasons. Leave the consequences. Leave the finale. Leave the grand statements. The simplicity of feeling should not be taxed. I can't work out what this will cost or what either of us owe. The admission charge is never on the door, but you are open and I want to enter. Let me in. You do.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I have come so far so fast that I haven't had time to ask whether or not this is where I want to be
~ Jeanette Winterson
I had to leave. She would have died for my sake. Wasn't it better for me to live a half life for her sake?
~ Jeanette Winterson
I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated; his heart and mine.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I walked round the block thinking I'd think about it, but my legs were heading home, and sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do.
~ Jeanette Winterson
People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It is not always possible to forgive oneself. And sometimes you make a choice to do something, knowing that you must do it, and that forgiveness is impossible.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it
~ Jeanette Winterson
Choice of subject, like choice of lover, is an intimate decision. Decision, the moment of saying yes, is prompted by something deeper; recognition. I recognise you; I know you again, from a dream or another life, or perhaps even from a chance sighting in a café, years ago.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When Lot's wife looked over her shoulder, she turned into a pillar of salt. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Tengo la teoría de que, cada vez que decides algo importante, la parte de ti que dejas atrás continúa la otra vida que podrías haber vivido
~ Jeanette Winterson
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body.
~ Jeanette Winterson
there's no choice that doesn't mean a loss
~ Jeanette Winterson