#tough

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#challenge #choices #decisions #hard #life

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#assumed #because #black #children #feminist

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#country #decisions #determination #experience #greece

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#back #buy #car #carry #cash

We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory. ↗

— Marisa Calin

#friendship #love #tough-times #friendship

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#pillow #support #tough #tough-times #inspirational

Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#life

I don't play with my life by talking bullshit. I might have some chances in this bitchy life, but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give... my best shot. ↗

— Toba Beta

#chances #give-your-best-shot #life #tough-life #truth

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me. ↗

— Paula McLain

#resilience #toughness #life

He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. "See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss. ↗

— Charles Martin

#thorns #tough-life #tough-times #worth #life