#decision

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it. ↗

— Ian Smith

#decision #declaring #had #i #independence

The course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpation, but by the individuals. The strongest army is, at its most basic level, a collection of individuals. Their decisions, their passions, their foolishness, and their dreams shape the years to come. If there is any lesson to be learned from history, it is that all too often the fate of armies, of cities, of entire realms rests upon the actions of one person's decision, good or bad, right or wrong, big or small, can unwittingly change the world. But history can be quite the slattern. One never knows who that person is, where he might be, or what decision he might male. It is almost enough to make me believe in destiny. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#destiny #furies-of-calderon #individiual #change

People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#courageous #decision #inspirational #life #motivational

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#decision #dream #free-will #courage

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.         To date, I had made three. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#corcitura #danger #eric-bradburry #hindsight #hybrid-vampires

If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#decisions #education

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience. ↗

— Quin Hillyer

#experience #facts #history #logic #political-candidates

Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice - the very worst - but the fact that she makes a choice at all, the fact that she engages the Devil in a debate which could go either way, the fact that she acts without God breathing down her neck - all speak for her free will or, what amounts to the same thing, her margin for error. It is from this margin for error that freedom springs, because you can’t be free to right unless you can be free to be wrong. ↗

— Robert Rowland Smith

#decision #eve #free-will #genesis #philosophy

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

— W.H. Auden

#friendship #lifestyle #friendship

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