"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision."
— Erich Fromm (The Art of Loving)

"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 (Der blinde Mörder / The Blind Assassin)

"Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man."
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"Once they change their minds- make a new decision, no matter how small- the whole future shifts."
— Stephenie Meyer

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading"
— Buddha

"If you are lost in the middle of nowhere. The best way is to think if the time is given to you, donot decide anything. If you cannot think, just do what you want. If you still donot find a way, the best way is to follow your nose."
— Amanullah Ashraf

"Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man."
— Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)

"After he wrote The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz got fervent amens from European governments as well as individual readers for insisting that the management of your focus has become one of decision-laden modernity's major challenges. Many behavioral economists and social psychologists also share his concern about what he calls "the consequences of mis-attention.""
— Winifred Gallagher (Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life)

"There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments."
— Irene Gonzalez Frei

"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."
— Phillip C. McGraw