“All he does is watch things happen and accept it all. I mean, occasionally he gives his own opinions, bu nothing very deep. Instead, he just broods over his love affair. He comes out of the mine about the same as when he went in. He has no sense that it was something he decided to do himself, or tha…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“But it's not a good idea to make decisions so soon. There's no such thing as absolutes.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You must create routines in your life or you will never stop falling victim to decision fatigue.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don’t have to be ashamed.”— Laini Taylor, amazon.com
“It’s funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn’t see this crucial moment then for what…”— Donna Tartt, Richard Papen, amazon.com
“At the moment you consciously make a choice, pay attention to your body and ask your body, ‘If I make this choice, what happens?’ If your body sends a message of comfort, that’s the right choice. If your body sends a message of discomfort, then it’s not the appropriate choice.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to…”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say No to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger Yes burning inside. The enemy of the best is often the good.”— Stephen R Covey, amazon.com
“Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I’ve become so hyper-aware of all the possible signs the universe is handing me that I’m not even thinking about myself. Maybe it’s possible that, no matter what I choose, it will be right because I will make it right. But we can’t look for clues in the present as though they’ve been left here by th…”— Leah Singerman, thoughtcatalog.com
“We have to process the things that happen in our lives, and sometimes we do that by justifying them as 'meant to be.' We can map out the moments that led to any significant life event, but when it comes to making decisions about the future, that way of thinking becomes a handicap. We’re so used to p…”— Leah Singerman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com