Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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A moment when the worst had already happened, so there was nothing left to worry about. I wanted to stop forever in that pause between cause and effect. A place where I didn__ have to be responsible for everybody all of the time.
To violate kingdom law is to bring negative consequences
Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I__ ignoring behind me. Instead, it__ most certain to drop it on top of me.
If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been punished in a manner which we may call passive. By this I mean that another person has not taken special, socially overt steps to harm the "offender." This phenomenon has not received the attention it deserves.
There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle__ean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.
No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.
She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
So many people who hear of my adventure tell me they wish they could do what I'm doing. They admire me and think I have courage. They wish they could do something equally as daring in their own life. I think they give me too much credit. I'm living out the consequences of my decisions, that's all. My priorities powered this adventure. The same propellant rests inside each of them.
Don__ think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.
Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.
I knew I had a choice. Either let you die and have the world blanketed with evil, or save you and make one dark moment for my best friend while the world continues to grow with light.
Every choice has its consequences. Some more than others
I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.
He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.
The only person, who can influence your life is YOU and it's never too late to recognize your worth.
Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences.Cooper: No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you.Eliza: Yeah? Like what?Cooper: I lost you, that was my consequence.
Imagine your life had a point system and every action, no matter how small, gave you positive or negative points. Would your points be in the positive or negative? Think before you act. Think of the effects your actions have on yourself and others.