"It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all."

-- James Agee

#Adversity Quotes #Choices Quotes #Rotten Quotes

“Make a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions.”
“The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.”
“Torches," Porak ordered. "This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we're coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they're blind.”

Source : Jim C. Hines (2006). “Goblin Quest”, p.11, Penguin
“The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”
“Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.”
“I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.”
“Lots of people feel more alive when theyre riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it cant possibly last.”
“Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.”

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