Quotes About Decision

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Well, if you can't make a plan for your own life, Vivian, then somebody needs to be your mother!

I kept waiting to want to have a baby, but it didn't happen. And I know what it feels like to want something, believe me. I well know what desire feels like. But it wasn't there. Moreover, I couldn't stop thinking about what my sister had said to me once, as she was breast-feeding her firstborn: "Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

También sé que no voy a tener hijos sólo para no arrepentirme de no haberlos tenido; no me parece un motivo suficiente para traer más niños a este mundo. Aunque supongo que habrá gente que se reproduzca por eso, como una especie de seguro contra el arrepentimiento futuro.

I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too.

Sometimes it's just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do.

It was a decision that left nobody happy- which is what my father might have called a successful business negotiation.

Hadn't I wanted this? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life. So why didn't I see myself in any of it? The only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't wanna hurt anybody, I wanted to slip quietly out the back door and not stop running until I reached Greenland. Instead I made a decision: to pray.. you know...like... to God. And it was such a foreign concept to me that I swear I almost began with: I'm a big fan of your work.

But I was supposed to want to have a baby.

my entire life has been shaped by an early decision to reject the cult of artistic martyrdom, and instead to place my trust in the crazy notion that my work loves me as much as I love it—that it wants to play with me as much as I want to play with it—and that this source of love and play is boundless.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit

he was still my lighthouse and my albatross in equal measure; the only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying, the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving

Now, then, young lady. Which of these gentlemen will you marry? This one. She squeezed [his] arm. The vicar inspected [him] and sniffed. Doesnt look that much different from the other one. Nevertheless- she fought to remain sober-faced- this is the man I want.

You were the one who left for London. You were the one who decided to-to tup another woman. You were the one who turned away from me. From us. Who is the greater sinner? I will no longer—urp!

He would have to marry her, and in doing so give up all his dreams, all his hopes, of having a family. She

To turn back is one kind of death; to go forward is another.

Making the decision to have a child—it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go

I hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

I may say, without undue egotism, that when I make up my mind to do something, it is done quickly.

hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

Tony sat down with a thud. You're going to marry Schmidt?

You might as well live

If you hate it, if you find you have made a mistake, it will still have been a change. As with a holiday, if it ends in your wishing to come home, its aim is accomplished.