People "died" all the time.. Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes the fire had gone out. . you always knew when you made a decision against life.. The door clicked and you were safe inside- safe and dead. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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E.e. Cummings
The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
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Lisa Wingate
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
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Shauna Niequist
Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
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Mhairi McFarlane
I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Mark Twain
More Quotes By Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and...
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
