#decisions

The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#life #change

In my dream I drove an RV off a cliff, because rather than hit the brakes or steer to safety, I was more concerned with either changing the radio station or turning the volume all the way down. They were playing Lady Gaga.
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— Jarod Kintz

#choices #cliff #death #decision #decisions

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert. ↗

— Tony Hawk

#change

Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen. ↗

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

#decisions #change

Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destiny #everything-happens-for-a-reason #finding-your-way #journey-of-life #making-mistakes

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, of the innocent eyes of good men, of the elastic nature of the passions, even of the devotion he had received from some men, and one woman, and dogs. ↗

— Patrick White

#devotion #dogs #fear #gods #innocence

We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#decisions #differences #inspirational #life #love

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you. ↗

— Paula Knoderer Hrbacek

#choices #decisions #inspirational #peer-pressure #religion

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#love #stars #taking-chances #love

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#actually #canal #career #decisions #i