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Quotes About Resolution

if you're making sense, you've just unmade confusion.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Do I love him? Yes. Is he perfect? No. Am I? No. Will I leave him? No. Okay, that's resolved. Time for a nap.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sit," Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later." ~Chloe to Dageus.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Grimm?" "Um?" "I hate you." "I know, lass. You told me that last night. It seems all our little 'discussions' end on those words. Try to be a bit more creative, will you?
~ Karen Marie Moning
When you refuse to think about an issue, it remains unchanged, in precisely the same state as you tucked it away." "Precisely the point of boxing it. The issue dies. Can no longer affect you. It's a damned effective tactic." "Short-term yes. Long-term, a recipe for disaster. When you next encounter whatever you boxed your feeling about, you're ambushed by repressed, unresolved emotion.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When someone hurts you - and I'm not talking about forgivable offenses, some things are irrevocable and demand recompense-you have two choices: slice them out of your life or slice them into delicious, bloody pieces. While the latter would be infinitely more satisfying in an immediate, animalistic way, it changes you. And, although you think the memory of the battle won will be a please-if it is a pleasure, you've lost the war.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?
~ Karen Marie Moning
People waste so much time mulling over things they've done when all the mulling in the world neither undoes nor changes one iota of what you did. The only thing that alters the unsatisfying state in which you've left things is future action. Either never see the person again, or see them and do something to set the record straight.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I always come back. He does, too. Actions speak.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Don't make it war, he said, and I won't. I don't have to. He already did.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You had to really cultivate an ending. To get it to last, you had to kneel and tend to the burial ground, continuously firming your resolution.
~ Karen Russell
it had taken years before their affair was truly over. You had to really cultivate an ending. To get it to last, you had to kneel and tend to the burial ground, continuously firming your resolution.
~ Karen Russell
Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.
~ Karen Tei Yamashita
Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid.
~ Karen Traviss
Antoinette Watkins found that writing helped defuse conflicts and increased her ability to discuss them. WHEN I BECAME TERRIBLY upset, I would sit down and write long letters to my husband, put them aside, read them the next day—and then throw them away. But it was a good idea to write it out. I think the big thing is to vent these things out of yourself, and you can do that in many ways. I found that writing helped.
~ Karl Pillemer
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
~ Karl Von Clausewitz
In reality, what triggers or causes our stress/stressors are our unresolved feelings, our inability to identify those feelings, and our reaction to those feelings. When we perceive that something is becoming stressful to us, we need to stop immediately and locate the feelings or the thoughts—the emotions—that are associated with that stress. After we identify those feelings (emotions), the next step is to process them through the Script.
~ Karol K. Truman
Ils auraient dû descendre le premier psychologue, comme ça on aurait eu moins de problèmes
~ Katarina Mazetti
Lust was a weed, a nightshade vine, a nettle, impossible to uproot as the mugwort I pulled in the fields of Illinois, so while in the daylight I was a flower of virtuous resolution, at night I was motherless in a cold kitchen, starved for the warm arms of a sweetheart and pretty words of approval.
~ Kate Manning
It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.
~ Fuyumi Ono
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul
~ G. K. Chesterton
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
~ G. K. Chesterton
First, all deals that close are win-win deals. The two sides would not agree to a proposal unless they thought agreement was better for them than no deal.
~ G. Richard Shell
A negotiation is an interactive communication process that may take place whenever we want something from someone else or another person wants something from us.
~ G. Richard Shell