Quotes About Decision

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let in.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

yesterday, n. You called to ask me when I was coming home, and when I reminded you that I wasn't coming home, you sounded so dissapointed that I decided to come home.

I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again; my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely.

It's up to you, not fate.

It's up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.

Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy either.

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

By the time I got there, you'd already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

If there were no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

You don't need to know how. You just make up your mind and it happens.

We all have the potential to commit the crime. We chose not to. Every single day, we chose not to. I am no different

Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice.

Persevere, v. Those first few weeks, after you told me, I wasn`t sure we were going to make it. After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again. I didn`t know whether or ot to touch you, sleep with you, have sex with you. Finally, I said, "It`s over." You started to cry, and I quickly said, "No – I mean this part is over. We have to get to the next part.

We vote every time we make a choice. We vote with our lives.

You just make up your mind and it happens.

If there was no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

I am liking him enough to know that a different time and a different place might have led to a different outcome. But since I'm not planning on leaving this time or place anytime soon, it's not a point worth making.

Plus/minus Positive/negative 1/0 I can/ I can't I will/ I won't You are/You aren't I said/I thought I said I will/I thought I can't I thought I can/I said You won't

when people say right person, wrong time, or wrong person, right time, it's usually a cop-out. They think that fate is playing with them. That we're all just participants in this romantic reality show that God gets a kick out of watching. But the universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.