Decisions Quotes
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"Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."
"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"
"Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love."
"The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led."
"It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about."
"When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose."
"I realize all guys have thorns. But I am a rose, and she chose a cactus over me. I wish her luck with her dry, desert-like existence with him."
"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."
"We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us."
"Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your soul mate, that kind of thing. But there was no doubt in my mind that this was one of those life-changing moments."
"Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them."
"Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost."
"Using my thumb and middle finger, I tend to make snap decisions. Right away I know whether I like a song or not."
"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."
"My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action."
"There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions"
"All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now."
"The decision is mine, and I choose happiness"
"Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table."
"With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair."
"Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with."
"It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be."
"We are the sum total of the decisions we have made."
"If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed."
"Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy."
"Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal."From The Biology of Success."
"You didn’t just automatically become a Christian, did you? You weren’t made a Christian by just going to church. Just like you are not made a car by sitting in a garage all day! You have to make a decision."
"Your thoughts carry you wherever you want to go. Weak thoughts don’t have the energy to carry you far!"
"Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful."
"You solely owe success and happiness to yourself. So why not make your inner-self proud of your daily decisions and actions?"
"Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him."
"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered."
"Light or dark, happy or sad, black or white, right or wrong there are only two strong options, the opposites and others are weak."
"Too many decisions are made based on satisfying ego."
"You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny."
"Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow."
"Most people live their lives laying prostrate before a false god, waiting for a cue to rise. There are no cues, only decisions. Shall I have dessert? Shall I have the best of the wine? Shall I love the person next to me? They can all be brought to your table. Rise, I say, rise and look within to the truth, to the light, and tell it your decision."
"All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear."
"There are always consequences to wrong choices."
"The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times."
"When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!"
"People will always tell you what they think you should or should not do. But your life is only between you and God. If you have doubts whether what you’re doing is right or wrong, before you make any decision, look up and ask God. You will always know the answer."
"It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked."
"The right path is characterised by rough road."
"To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey
"Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely"
"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."
"Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why."
"The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice and by design."
"The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design."
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