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“There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”

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Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.”

Eye Action Past Interesting Views Consequence I Have Learned Our Past

Book:A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Self Feelings Action Desire Results Consequence Negative Determine Satisfaction Self-satisfaction Negative Consequences

Book:The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.”

People Knows Giving Feelings Seems Eye Action Young Asks Grace Consequence Endless Generous Companionship Everlasting Miraculous Straightforward

Author:Albert Camus

“We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.”

Action Choices Accepting Our Lives Consequence Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Author:Neil Gaiman

“He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.”

Ifs Men Care Action My Own Duty Protect Consequence Responsible Prepared Burden Take Care Being Responsible Brian

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.”

Done Action Causes Secret Consequence Harder Temptation Impulse Who We Are Our Actions Admitting

Book:Intertwined

Source: Intertwined

“Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.”

Action Trouble Consequence Impulsive

Author:Steig Larsson

“If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.”

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.”

Thinking Hands Action Remember Consequence Dear Our Actions Think Twice

Book:LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

Source: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

“Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?”

Action Half Our Lives Consequence Ignorant True Nature Reproach

Book:Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither

“In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.”

People World Action Water Community Cases Rich Drink Consequence Los Angeles Wealthy Rich People Bottled Water Gated Communities

Author:Jared Diamond

“There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.”

Believe Happens Action Can Do Accepting Honor Consequence Things To Do Right Thing

Book:Superior Saturday

Source: Superior Saturday

“There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.”

Knows Action Deals One Thing Consequence Things In Life Follow Through Sure Thing

Book:Rosie Dunne

Source: Rosie Dunne

“Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.”

Way Children Said Might Action Wish Easy Difficult Mistake Events Consequence Concerned Contrary Hardest My Children Behave Right Way Our Actions Darling Coping

Author:Elizabeth George

“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.”

Action Creatures Consequence Live Life

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.”

People Mean Action Christian Evil Atheism Consequence Majority Atheist Thoughts And Actions

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”

Action Consequence Claims Karma Indifferent Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.”

Persons Said Action Found Successful Judging Consequence Kelsier

Book:Mistborn: The Final Empire

Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire

“We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.”

“The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?”

Ifs Thinking Action Desire Quality Principles Objects Illusion Consequence Independent Mere Excited Free Will Inward Persuasion Our Actions Volition

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.”

Men Love Kind Done Action Attitude Consequence Luck Things Done Fountainhead Howard Roark

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.”

Humans Action Liberty Accepting Duty Please Consequence Harm Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.”

Today Action Responsibility Technology Consequence Scientist Engineers Businessman Personal Responsibility

Author:Bill Joy

“From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.”

Action Spiritual Choices Particular Expression Perspective Consequence Ultimate Liberation Outcomes Attachment Our Choices

Book:The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices

Source: The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices

“When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

“All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.”

Mind Ideas Action Judging Morality Ethics Consequence Absurd Sisyphus Myth Of Sisyphus Actions Have Consequences

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays