“I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity is evoking genuine emotion across life - the sadness, passion, love, sense of loss, missed opportunities, and confusion even. All of this helps us realize that our choices do impact the lives that we eventually lead.” WantFeelsCharacterHelpingChoicesPassionOpportunityVoiceRealizingLossEmotionSadnessHonestUniqueOriginalsImpactGenuineAuthenticityConfusionOur ChoicesLove PassionMissed Opportunity Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.” KindChildrenMomentsChoicesSadness Author:Bernardo Bertolucci
“Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.” IfsWorldWayLifeInspirationalFirstsHeartMayHas BeensStoriesBodyChoicesNextProcessRealizingStepsSadnessChildhoodAwarenessMessagesPrisonYour BodyReleaseLive ByDaringLockedReverseAnother WayOutside WorldChoices You MakeTelling Your Story Author:Martha Beck
“Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” WayGivingRealEndsLightChoicesPassionJesusEnergyChristSadnessLonelinessIdealsOvercomingCharityUncertaintyCurbMeaning Life Author:Pope John Paul II
“Emotions are our spontaneous response to life. We have these emotions, but if the emotion is a negative emotion, then I have a choice to say, "I am feeling sad tonight because this happened, but I am not going to let my sadness keep me from engaging my wife in conversation. "” IfsFeelingsChoicesEmotionWifeHappenedSadnessConversationNegativeResponseMy WifeTonightSpontaneousEngagingFeeling SadNegative Emotions Author:Gary Chapman
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.” I CanChoicesSadnessFeminismMadActiveClassicPassiveBeing A Woman Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.” WayNeedsBelieveSoulSometimesChoicesFoundLostForcePathSadnessEasierDeeperDuesDespiteWanderPreventing Author:Cecelia Ahern
“We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.” NeedsWholeChoicesAttentionSadnessDangerousBearsWildernessPrairiePanthers Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder
“But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal” WorldWayLongSelfBigsChoicesEasySadnessStupidTaughtRegretMomFindingsToughOptimismGuiltMy MomPityAwfulComicIronyRememberedTragicIronicResentmentThings In LifeJustificationBizarreProposalSkepticalOutrageousSelf PityEasy WayMarcosTiresome Author:Katherine Applegate
“I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.” I CanCharacterPainChoicesLossGriefSadnessTreasureGravityPerpetualThankfulBeing ThankfulGood CharacterThankful GratitudeGreat CharacterPrecious GiftsI Am ThankfulMoving On In LifeSadness Of LifeMoving On LovePain And LossHow Precious Life IsGot To Move On Author:Walter Inglis Anderson
“Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.” IfsTogetherJoyChoicesSpiritualityBeliefHeavenHellSeeingSadnessDisappearManifestationUglinessHeaven And HellBeauty Of Life Author:Rajneesh
“We have a choice at every moment. We can engage in sadness, anger or fear or we can choose joy, love, and peace.” MomentsJoyChoicesSadnessPeace And Love Author:Jude Bijou