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“When I harvest my life right up to the edges, I have collected every last kernel of blessing.”

Book:Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits that Bind You

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“When someone dies they can be any age you remember can't they ' she asked. As I tried to think of a reply she continued 'You probably think about the grown-up Tess because you were still close to her. But when I woke up I thought of her when she was three wearing a fairy skirt I'd got her in the Woolworth's and a policeman's helmet. Her wand was a wooden spoon. On the bus yesterday I imagined holding her when she was two days old. I felt the warmth of her. I remembered all her fingers clasped around my finger so tiny they didn't even meet. I remembered the shape of her head and stroking the nape of her neck till she slept. I remembered her smell. She smelled of innocence. Other times she's thirteen and so pretty that I worry for her everytime I see a man look at her. All of those Tesses is my daughter.”

Death Motherhood Remembrance

Book:Sister

Source: Sister

“The pressure remains all in one direction, toward doing more, because the only mistake clinicians seem to fear is doing too little. Most have no appreciation that equally terrible mistakes are possible in the other direction—that doing too much could be no less devastating to a person's life.”

Healing Doctors Medicine Decisions Treatment Decision Making Terminal Illness Patients

Book:Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Plutôt que de laisser aux autres le pouvoir de décider de nos échecs ou de nos succès, préoccupons-nous plutôt de chaque décision que l'on prendra pour impacter des vies en étant responsable de la nôtre!”

Leadership Motivational Quotes Decisions Self Motivation Français Succès

Author:Diogo Fino

“And then there are roads that can't be walked back.”

Life Decisions Roads

Author:Aquib Ali

“Balanced at the top of the hill Do I explore the other side”

Balance Decisions Contemplation Explore Other Options Side Hill Wisewords

Author:Richard L. Ratliff

“If I think that I and I alone make the majority of my decisions, my real decision has been to be ignorant.”

Ignorance Independent Ignorant Decisions Autonomous Decide Influenced Impacted

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is like a library: you can borrow whichever experiences you deem pleasant, and easily return those that bring you pain.”

Life Lessons Life Philosophy Decisions Choices And Consequences

Author:Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

“By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.”

Information Data Decisions Decision Making Statistics Data Analysis Stats

Book:The 60 Second Leader: Everything You Need to Know About Leadership, in 60 Second Bites

Source: The 60 Second Leader: Everything You Need to Know About Leadership, in 60 Second Bites

“It's easy when you're climbing something. Don't look down, or even too far ahead. Focus on where you are in that moment.”

Life Focus Decisions Moment

Book:That Thing We Call a Heart

Source: That Thing We Call a Heart

“If we can agree that the economic problem of society is mainly one of rapid adaptation to changes in the particular circumstances of time and place, it would seem to follow that the ultimate decisions must be left to the people who are familiar with these circumstances, who know directly of the relevant changes and of the resources immediately available to meet them.”

Society Economics Decisions

Book:The Use of Knowledge in Society

Source: The Use of Knowledge in Society

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