#decision

The right thing was confusing, and difficult, and sometimes Jason wondered if it was in fact a nonexistent ideal, like heaven or the American dream. There was no right thing. You did what you did for whatever reasons occurred to you at the time, depending on whichever emotion was running thickest in your blood. Your desire and fear and adrenaline and longing. You made your choice and came up with the reasons later. ↗

— Thomas Mullen

#decisions #emotion #logic #reasons #death

A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#college #lonely #dreams

There's a great difficulty in making choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one choice seems satisfactory for very long by comparison with the aggregate desirability of all the rest, though compared to any *one* of the others it would not be found inferior. All equally attractive but none finally inviting. ↗

— John Barth

#decision #john-barth #paralysis #equality

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you'd give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only. ↗

— Deborah J. Lightfoot

#critical-thinking #decision-making #rational-thought #anger

I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I've spent my life with stories of people who don't walk away, who go back for their friends, who make that last stand. I've been brainwashed by Samwise Gamgee. ↗

— Andrea K. Höst

#humour #pop-culture #life

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. ↗

— Joe Andrew

#between #decisions #good #good and bad #goods

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. . ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#leadership #leadership

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. ↗

— Ken Levine

#consequences #decisions #life #life

I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#life

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there. ↗

— David Levithan

#decisions #life #mistakes #life