#choice

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!! ↗

— Ruth Buzzi

#am #choices #decision #fun #had

The difficulty in life is the choice. ↗

— George A. Moore

#difficulty #life

These choices we make, they seem so small-- they're made in a split second and yet they can have a ripple effect for years. ↗

— Heather McElhatton

#life

We can't always have our druthers. ↗

— Harper Lee

#decision #life #motivation #reality #life

They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#virtue #life

The easiest thing is to say no. What's not so easy is telling yourself to stop. ↗

— Alix

#choices #life #life

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#books-of-ember #city-of-ember #goodness #jeanne-duprau #lina

Choices determine character. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#choice #graulas #character

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life. ↗

— Mary Ruefle

#poetry #youth #life

Some things you sentence yourself to life for. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#consequences #life