#choices

To hold the rank of responsibility, requires you to make decisions that will not only hurt the enemy…but also your own. And there will come a time when the situation will be absolutely so bleak that every eye will turn to you out of fear and desperation. In that moment, you’ll have to become like the steel of your ship…and make the hardest choices of your life. Because if you don’t, there will be no one is else to do it for you. And you will always be alone in this. ↗

— Commander Paladin Martian Fleet - from Beyond Mars Crimson Fleet

#desperation #military #military-philosophy #rank #resposibility

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#choices #law #legality #life #morality

Want a better life? Make better decisions. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#life

The life we live is an expression of the choices we make. ↗

— Laurie Buchanan

#choices-and-consequences #life

Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right - but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#free-will #life

You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#happiness #life #life

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast. ↗

— Jill McCorkle

#life

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #lucian-greymark #luke-garroway #mortal-instruments #love

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #love

And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important... What sex should involve is a very serious relationship. Whether that relationship should or should not become a marriage is a question which depends on the circumstances and the context of the two persons' lives. I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have found the person with whom they wish to spend the rest of their lives -- a question of which no man or woman can be automatically certain. When one is certain that one's choice is final, then marriage is, of course, a desirable state. But this does not mean that any relationship based on less than total certainty is improper. I think the question of an affair or a marriage depends on the knowledge and the position of the two persons involved and should be left up to them. Either is moral, provided only that both parties take the relationship seriously and that it is based on values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #morality #partners #promiscuity #sex