Quotes About Decision

The truth of beyng is the beyng of truth—said in this way, it sounds like an artificial and forced reversal and, at most, like a seduction to a dialectical game. In fact, this reversal is merely a fleeting and external sign of the turning which essentially occurs in beyng itself and which casts light on what might be meant here by "decision.

Understanding the call, Dasein listens to its ownmost possibility of existence. It has chosen itself.

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right

Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.

The time is always right, to do what's right.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively

Svaki ?ovjek mora odlu?iti ho?e li hodati u svjetlu kreativnog altruizma ili u tami destruktivnog egoizma.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

To her mind, when you were drowning and a rope was thrown your way, you didn't waste time thinking about what to do. You just grabbed it, then kicked and swam like the devil to safety.

But she had the chance now to make things right, at least for her daughter. She may have done a lot of things wrong, but the decision to give up her child would be the one responsible, unselfish act of her life. It was the best thing she'd ever done. But it felt like the worst.

fate could come along and intervene and change the course of one's life in the breath of a moment. One tragic fall, a bitter divorce, a child's decision, a hurricane.

I accept that the mind often dictates the heart. Yet I believe that the heart is the truer guide. Was she

I accept that the mind often dictates the heart. Yet I believe that the heart is the truer guide.

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

I am free, you see, she said, to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. That is why I love you, and it is the way I love you.

It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.

Do you believe that sometimes life points out a way for us to follow even if it does not force us into taking that particular path?

Now, Jack, is there anything you would like? The youth pondered for a moment. I'd like a shillin', said he. Nothing you would like better? I'd like two shillin' better, the prodigy answered after some thought.

said no more but, calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty £1,000 notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility which it entailed

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

No human actions are truly random