#act

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#tragedy #words #life

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#characters #life #life

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#course #distrust #i #improve #lives

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#human-being #life #personality #prediction #reaction

You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inaction #life #motivational #success #life

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul. ↗

— David O. McKay

#david-o-mckay #goals #life

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#bittersweet #regrets #sarah-ockler #sorry #action

NEVER be surprised by your own success! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational #success #life