“Your decisions will inevitably affect your future, negatively or positively. This is life’s reality. Ensure your decisions lead to transformation by any means necessary.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“Vielleicht braucht es das Fremde im Bekannten, um uns tief im Innern zu berühren. Uns zu verändern und unsere Entscheidungen zu formen. Uns mutiger zu machen, unerschrockener, auf der langen Reise zu uns selbst.”
Source: Fünf Wörter für Sehnsucht
“How if I hadn't killed her she would have died and that is something I could not bear to happen to her.”
Source: Beloved
“In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“That's who is now, he reminds himself, someone who makes decisions, who doesn't let life just act upon him. Wasn't that the big lesson of transition, of detransition? That you'll never know all the angles, that delay is just form of hiding from reality. That you just figure what you what you want and do it? And maybe, if you don't know what you want, you just do something anyway, and everything will change, and then maybe that will reveal what you really want. So do something.”
Source: Detransition, Baby
“Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive him'"
"Forgive him?" my father asked.
"I think she was referring to the drunk driver who killed her."
Wow.
My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love and tolerance.
She wanted us to forgive Gerald, the dumb-ass Spokane Indian alcoholic who ran her over and killed her.
I think My Dad wanted to go find Gerald and beat him to death.
I think my mother would have helped him.
I think I would have helped him, too.
But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer.
Even dead, she was a better person than us.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Everything, good or bad, was down to me.”
Source: My Best Friend's Girl
“Havin to make all the rules, all the time, wasn’t never my idea of a party.”
Source: The Sweet by and by
“But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.”
Source: Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions
“I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal, your life for the existence of dragons.I thought maybe yes, maybe no.”