Quotes About Decision

To experience pain may not be a choice, but to suffer is a cognitive decision

Sometimes you knew changes needed to be made but just couldn't summon up the energy to make them.

But this was just making her feel claustrophobic. They couldn't carry on like this; she was going to have to do something about it.

Whether or not this worked out, Ellie knew she would never regret it. Sometimes you just had to take the risk. Maybe it would be a brief but wonderful romance, maybe it would last a lifetime.

The word "crisis" is from the Greek, meaning "a moment to decide." The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger

I'm done waiting. Done doing things the easy way and letting things happen as they will. Her heart caught. What does that mean? It means this is too important to let slip away again. You're too important. He leaned back against the truck with a low grunt of effort, eyes dark, jaw clenched. I love you too, Tara.

She closed her eyes. "Okay, here's the thing. We have some chemistry," she allowed. "Some? Or supernova?" "Supernova. But," she said to his knowing grin. Good Lord, he needed to stop doing that. "I really did give up men." "Forever?" "My gut says yes, but that might be PMS talking. Let's just say I'm giving up men for a very long time." "You going to try out women?

Life is one big fat gamble, and the odds are never in your favor. So you either go for it anyway and toss the dice or you don't play. But not playing? She jabbed him in the bare chest with her finger. That's the coward's way out. And I hadn't pegged you for a coward. Figure your shit out.

And not that I don't love those words, but what were you wrong about? Walking away from you. She stepped into him. I'm done with that, by the way. I'm walking straight at you from now on.

Chloe? Yeah? I'd be worth the inhaler, he said, then forced himself to walk away.

Truthfully, she was the best thing in his life and he was a complete idiot if he let her walk away from him.

His expression was strained. I'm trying like hell to be the good guy here. I need you to go inside and lock the door behind you to keep out of trouble. I thought Wildstone was safe. It is. The trouble isn't going to come from the unknown. It's going to come from me. Go, Quinn. Now. And lock your door. She stared up at him, mesmerized by the thought of him being trouble, images going through her head of him proving it to her, all of them involving little to no clothing and a bed.

She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch.

Never agree to marry a man because he has potential. Men are not like houses; they do not make good fixer-uppers.

The intimacy bridge? Girl, he sounds like a total loser. Dump him. Now. Before he brings up the intimacy bridge again.

Granted, he'd been royally messed up at that time. Years ago, Jason had died of a rare and misdiagnosed heart condition. His family had fallen apart, and James had . . . lost himself. So much so that he'd asked Hannah to walk away from her life and go explore the planet with him. She'd declined and ghosted him.

It was going to take a lot to convince her that he was a good idea, although he was pretty sure her body might've already made its decision. He had no idea what it would take to persuade the rest of her.

Why choose failure when success is always an option?

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done. I turned around and ran like hell.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

So? Bob said. Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved. Bob, I said. You can't just go around killing people. I know. That's why you should do it. No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.