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"We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions."
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Personal Development
"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
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Personal Development
"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
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Personal Development
"It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined."
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Personal Development
"The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice."
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Personal Development
"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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Personal Development
"Priorities are simple to establish, what is desire and what is necessity?"
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Personal Development
"You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement."
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Personal Development
"You're the one who has to live with your choice," she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will."
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Personal Development
"For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong."
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Personal Development
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"Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else."
Life
"We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans."
Life
"The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers."
Art
"But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on."
Life
"What happens if your choice is misguided?' I ask, softly.Miss Moore takes a pear from the bowl and offers us the grapes to devour. 'You must try to correct it.''But what if it's too late? What if you can't?'There's a sad sympathy in Miss Moore's catlike eyes as she regards my painting again. She paints the thinnest sliver of shadow along the bottom of the apple, bringing it fully to life.'Then you must find a way to live with it."
Philosophy
"Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?"
Spiritual
"You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.""If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?""Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life."
Duty
"In a world like this one, only the random makes sense."
Philosophy
"I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world."
Relationship
"Write like it matters, and it will."
Writing
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