#quen

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#break #creativity #experience #free #need

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#discovering #effect #experience #happenings #life

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#choices #choices-and-consequences #conclusions #consequences #decisions

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#individuality #individuals #self #uniqueness #life

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency. ↗

— William Shatner

#better #better idea #frequency #got #happens

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #good #good-and-evil #inspiration #uniqueness

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task. ↗

— George Soros

#comes #consequences #criterion #different #different people

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#expression #freedom #individuality #life #norms

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#choice #consequences #freedom #redemption #responsibility

You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#choices-and-consequences #free-will #freedom #freedom-of-choice #making-sense-of-the-world