Quotes About Decision

I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.

What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?

What was worse, we asked ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?

But my main motivation is fear of regret. I worry that if I didn't go, one day I'd look back and wonder, What if I had?

I felt as if I were running in a labyrinth, chasing after something I could not see yet knew was important. I sensed it was just ahead, and then it would go around a corner, and I would be lost. I would have to decide what to do next, where to go, and what I needed to get out of that confusing place. If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would be nowhere else to go.

Qué es el pasado si no aquello que elegimos recordar?

There was never the right time for me to declare we should be together for the rest of our lives when you were yelling at me that you would never sleep in the same bed as me again.

But my main motivation is fear of regret.

In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

When I saw you, Sabina, I chose my body.

Had a cordial note from Dos Passos, in Key West, Fla., saying he would be delighted to receive a copy—but I'm not sending him one, for the reason given.)

I am stuck with the novel, but it is a good healthy stop; it is the minute when I choose forever one kind of writing from another. It's a desperate moment, but beyond the temporary paralysis, I feel already the joy of a good bold cutting out of the mediocre.

Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

One has to choose. The main thing is to know what one wants...

Once I had made my mind up, I could see nothing but the advantages.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

And if I live badly, whilst I'm waiting to decide how to live?

To know how to free oneself is nothing, the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. (pp13 - The immoralist)

Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.

He made a choice, one his father didn't understand or agree with. But he still should have supported it. That's what love is about.

I had to recognize when a race meeting was offering me little promise so that I could bail out early.

gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one's eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket