All Quotes By Tag: Decisions

“Scarcity mentality measures out life by the ounce; it always concludes that the needs outweigh the resources.”

“What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?”

“SENSEDo you make decisions based on what makes sense in your mind or what you sense in your heart?”

“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”

“We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.”

“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

“The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it’s our will alone that leads us to one or the other.”

“This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.”

“Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.”

“Don’t let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.”

“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.”

“You didn’t just automatically become a Christian, did you? You weren’t made a Christian by just going to church. Just like you are not made a car by sitting in a garage all day! You have to make a decision.”

“Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal.” From The Biology of Success.”

“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.”

“Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.”