#decisions

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#decisions #doubts #death

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #marketing #diet

Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you're an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to steer clear of people who are harmful to your health. ↗

— Andrea Lavinthal

#decisions #family #family-relationships #growing-up #family

The quest of discovering your empowered self is a process of refinement, not accumulation. Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#empowerment #freedom #happiness #life #past

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake; ↗

— W.H. Auden

#friendship #lifestyle #friendship

Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#brotherhood #choices #corcitura #decisions #eric-bradburry

Whether you decision is good or bad at least you had the balls to make one. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#humor #inspirational #life-decisions #humor

And so back to Cassie: who was she? Part of the deception; just a friend or something else…perhaps it was time to find out. ↗

— Melanie Cusick-Jones

#love #mystery #love

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, `I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, `You will, though. ↗

— Tom McNeal

#love #marriage #marriage-advice #love

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#oppression #decisions