#ice

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be. ↗

— René Dubos

#individuality #limitation #potential #self #life

Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine ↗

— Victor Hugo

#justice #truth #life

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. ↗

— Esther Perel

#love #marriage #marriage-advice #romance #time

Life presents many challenges...Temptation is one of them.. And free will govern us all. We have the power to choose. ↗

— Lee Monroe

#life

I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#i #like #nice #nice person #particularly

After all, what doesn't kill you... just really pisses you off. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#life

Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attracts, and the badder the boy, the more attractive he was to that good girl who couldn't help but be drawn to him. ↗

— Primal Kiss Lora Leigh

#life

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren't anything else. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#choices #life #live #strong #war

There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed, in the silk-lined darkness, to stay a while longer with his submissive tongue straining upward into her asshole. But she moves away. The fur evaporates from his hands. She orders him to masturbate for her. She has watched Captain Blicero with Gottfried, and has learned the proper style. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#reality-check #sex #sex-advice #truth #life

Though our hourglass runs, one day it shall not, but then our eternity hourglass begins with never ending sands, what mantle do you want to set your hourglass of eternal life upon? This in your choice to make, no one but you can make that decision. So think wisely and live honorable, for your actions will choice the destination of your hourglass. ↗

— Tabitha Robin

#eternal #eternity #hourglass #life #mantle