#decision

The Marquess shrugged. “I’m a shadow. I do know I am a shadow, Iago. I know most of the time. It’s only when I cannot bear how everyone looks at me down here that I make myself forget it. Shadows are the other side of yourself. I had longings to be good, even then. I was just stronger than my wanting. I’m stronger than anything, really, when I want to be.” The Marquess’s hair turned white as the snow. “Do you know, we’re right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can’t get back to. I don’t even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#freedom #indecision #longings #shadows #wants

The quest of discovering your empowered self is a process of refinement, not accumulation. Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#empowerment #freedom #happiness #life #past

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake; ↗

— W.H. Auden

#friendship #lifestyle #friendship

You are defined by the decisions you make. When one bites you in the ass the way you respond to it either makes or breaks you. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#delay #fear #future #haste #inspiring-quotes

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one. ↗

— Mary Hoffman

#life #life

I don't regret any of the decisions I've made in my life because with every choice I make, I learn something new. ↗

— Siva Kaneswaren

#decisions #learn #siva-kaneswaren #the-wanted #life

It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now. ↗

— Francis Chan

#excuse #god-s-will #holy-spirit #inaction-disobedience #making-decisions

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation. ↗

— James Patterson

#life #life

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#everyone #everything #first-time #had-known #lie