#sequence

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#discovering #effect #experience #happenings #life

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task. ↗

— George Soros

#comes #consequences #criterion #different #different people

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#been #caught #consequences #done #even

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there. ↗

— David Levithan

#decisions #life #mistakes #life

People say that it's the big decisions that are important... that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction. ↗

— Julie Gittus

#consequences #life #life

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it. ↗

— Anne Holm

#consequences #i-am-david #life #smart #wisdom

The life we live is an expression of the choices we make. ↗

— Laurie Buchanan

#choices-and-consequences #life

And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since. ↗

— Tony Burgess

#motives #self-reflection #motivational

Man is able to snatch everything except one thing, the last of human freedoms: the choice of an attitude under any given set of circumstances to determine his own path. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#choices-and-consequences #freedom #meaning-of-life #attitude

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#beautiful #beginning #consequences #did #ends