Quotes About Decision

Once, walking with him, Paola had stopped and asked him what he was thinking about, and the fact that she was the only person in the world he would not be embarrassed to tell just what it was he had been thinking about at that moment convinced him, though a thousand things had already done so, that this was the woman he wanted to marry, had to marry, would marry.

Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once?" Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was.

mouth. Her mascara and eye shadow still looked okay at least. No need to add more, she decided. And thankfully, the mineral powder she'd used to seal her foundation seemed

So on May 1 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

Don't ever underestimate who or what He'll use to get something done. But the choice to believe that is always yours to make.

for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

When conflict threatens your peace of mind, recall that you have the power to choose whether or not to engage in drama.

When there's a war, people get married.

you want something, you go and get it. If you don't want that thing, you let it go and stop brooding.

self-selecting process of elimination for most things life offered, such as risk and adventure.

because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always, a far richer experience than a book turned into a movie.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Does he understand now that 'what if?' isn't fair when, under a different set of circumstances, you were asked to polarise things into one moment in time, when you had to defend what you wanted at a completely different moment? Kamryn to Luke

That's what I like about the modern world: choice. We all choose what we have to live with.

Sometimes living with him is like being told to hold my breath as a matter of life and death - but never being told when to let that breath out. So I don't know what to do for the best. To let out that breath and suffer the consequences or to keep holding on no matter what it does to me.

so are you going to marry me or what?" He smiled that smile that had been making me feel something like drunk these past few months, and I felt all my sensibility and reason start to beat their wings as they prepared to fly away. Again.

strung across my mind like intricate worry beads are these thoughts about whether this was the path I was meant to have taken. Was there another option for me? And am I too far along this path to make a change, and relive my life?

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

One of the newer terms in the poly lexicon, relationship anarchy, refers to a lifestyle decision not to take one partner as a "primary" and others as "secondaries" (or any hierarchy of that kind) but instead to maintain each relationship as separate and to make as few rules as possible.

You write the script, you get to make the choices, and you get to change your mind, too.

Love is a choice, and you need a plan, and you need to use skills to keep your marriage filled with love choices.

No one here is allowed to die without my permission.

Are you sure this is a good idea?' I ask. 'No,' says Amber. 'Let's do it.