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Everything in life is born of some cause, and followed by some effect

• The Law of Cause & Effect states that absolutely everything happens for a reason. All actions have consequences and produce specific results, as do all inactions. The choices we make are causes, whether they are conscious or unconscious, and will produce corresponding outcomes or effects. The Law works the same for everyone at all times. Peter Jordaan
• Cause and Effect: The concept that an action or event will produce a certain response to the action in the form of another event.  com
• Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain. Julian P. Johnson
• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Through the law of cause and effect we choose our destiny. Moreover, we are our own prophets for we constantly project our future state by the seeds we plant in the present. Cheryl Canfield
• The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you’ve created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands. Keanu Reeves
• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among these fibres, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville
• Karma,  Choice

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Science is based on this very fact

• All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man’s ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events. Lawrence J Peters
• Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. Thomas Hobbes
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Everything we say, think or do has consequences

• A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. Norman Cousins
• Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson
• Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. Norman Cousins

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These consequences are controlled by natural laws and principles of life

• Natural laws (like gravity) and principles (like respect, honesty, kindness, integrity, and fairness) control the consequences of our choices. Just as you get bad air and bad water when you consistently violate the environment, so also is trust (the glue of relationships) destroyed when you’re consistently unkind and dishonest to people. Stephen Covey
• Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. Alfred A. Montapert
• I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature’s laws, and that all societies will succeed or fail in the degrees that they operate consistently with these laws. Ray Dalio
• It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect. Thomas Troward
• It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. Cecil deMille
• Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it. Sakyong Mipham
• Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact. Henry Geaye
• Our behaviour is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences. Stephen Covey
• Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely. Stephen Covey
• Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behaviour. Stephen Covey
• There are fundamental laws of life (Truths) that operate with unerring consistency – and you are better off to the degree to which you learn to live according to them. Stephen Covey
• There are universal laws at work, even here. The Law of Attraction; the Law of Correspondence; and the Law of Karma. That is: like attracts like; as within, so without; and what goes around comes around. M. Forester
• While values drive behaviours, principles govern consequences. Stephen Covey
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The thoughts we think carry consequences

• Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. James Allen
• You are now in the additional business of mental gardening: choosing the seeds or imprints you want to put in your mind by studying which imprints create the things you want to achieve—consciously planting those seeds, and then sitting back to enjoy the extraordinary success that will come to you. Geshe Michael Roach
• Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit. James Allen
• My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds. Mel Weldon
• Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious. Bill Meyer
• Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. Tryon Edwards
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The choices and decisions we make carry consequences

• Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit? Gary Ryan Blair
• Every great decision creates ripples–like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences. Ben Aaronvitch
• Master your choices, or become the slave of their consequences. Michael Rawls
• We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. Ken Levine
• Every decision has a consequence. Damon Darrell
• Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. Alfred A. Montapert
• Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences. H. Auden
• Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. Alfred A. Montapert
• Every choice you make has an end result. Zig Ziglar
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The actions we take carry consequences

• When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence, you had damned well better take the action that would create it. Lois McMaster Bujold
• Actions always have consequences! Joel Coen
• 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. Iris Murdoch
• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he’ll get good consequences; if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it. Harry Brown
• My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.  My actions are the ground upon which I stand.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• According to the karma of past actions, one’s destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky. Sri Guru Granth Sahib
• Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. Sakyong Mipham
• Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot
• Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.  Edith Wharton
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We are free to choose our actions, but not the consequences of our actions

• While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. Stephen Covey
• You cannot control the results, only your actions. Allan Lokos
• We are free to choose our paths, but we can’t choose the consequences that come with them. Sean Covey
• We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. Ayn Rand
• It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. Josiah Stamp
• Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. John Quincy

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Sometimes, even little things can have far reaching consequences on our lives

• Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. Bruce Barton
• 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
• Oh, if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future? Isabelle Eberhardt
• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far- reaching. Sivananda

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There are no rewards or punishments in life – only consequences

• In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. Robert Green Ingersoll
• Karma is not an inviolate engine of cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results, and consequences. Vera Nazarian
• There are no rewards or punishments — only consequences. R. Inge
• Happiness is not a reward, it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll
• Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. Elbert Hubbard
• All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. Reinhold Niebuhr

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It is a law of life that we tend to reap what we sow

• Doubt not to reap, if thou can’t bear to plough. Judith Maden
• The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Bible
• With every deed, you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma. Sri Guru Granth Sahib
• What goes around, comes around.
• Give out what you most want to come back. Robin S. Sharma
• You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. Grant M. Bright
• Karma is simply the law of cause and effect. If you plant an apple seed, you don’t a get a mango tree. If we practice hatred or greed, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. If we practice awareness or loving-kindness, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. We are heirs to the results of our actions, to the intentions we bring to every moment we initiate. We make ripples upon the ocean of the universe through our very presence.  Christina Feldman Jack Kornfield
• Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non- virtuously, suffering results. Sakyong Mipham
• I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good. Sandra Bullock
• Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap… We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law. Nina Hagen
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As a general rule, if you do wrong, you’ll tend to suffer wrong…

• But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences sooner or later. Lydia M. Child
• Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre- exists in the means, the fruit in the seed.  You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.  Ralph W. Emerson
• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he’ll get good consequences; if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it. Harry Brown
• Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. Orison Swett Marden
• Consequences are unpitying. George Eliot
• Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. Mary Baker Eddy
• It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. Daisaku Ikeda
• Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can’t get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don’t care who you are. What goes around comes around. That’s how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve. Jessica Brody
• The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time. Ben Okri
• Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Arthur Conan Doyle
• Live by the sword, die by the sword. Gospel of Matthew
• Who so diggeth a pit shall fall therein. Proverbs
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… whereas good and virtuous deeds tend to reward us

• Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. Jeremy Taylor
• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke
• Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. William Penn
• There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.  Peyton Conway March
• I’m coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn’t just evaporate and disappear.  Desmond Tutu
• Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life’s latest sands are its sands of gold! Julia C.R. Dorr
• Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. Steve Maraboli
• In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. Flora Edwards
• He that does good to another does good also to himself. Seneca
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However, don’t expect that to apply 100 percent of the time

• Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. Aristotle
• Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is badJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. Dennis Wholey
• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde
• Life is not fair; get used to it. Bill Gates

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Deliberate before you act or decide, by anticipating what the consequences will be

• In each action, we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. Blaise Pascal
• Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today’s decisions. Gary Ryan Blair
• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Norman Cousins
• Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back? Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?   Alfred A. Montapert
• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Henry Huxley
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To enjoy positive consequences tomorrow, you need to take positive steps today

• It will never rain roses; when we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees. George Eliot
• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Henry Huxley
• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
• Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. Ralph Ransom
• It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest. Orison Swett Marden
• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. C. Forbes
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Be bravely prepared to pay the consequences of your actions and you can achieve much

• You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. William Somerset Maugham
• Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes. Lawson Purdy
• If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway
• To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid. John Cage
• Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation. Thomas Henry Huxley
• Whatever you do, don’t whimper, but take the consequences. S. Eliot
• Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Thomas Henry Huxley
• Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. Marcus Garvey

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The best way to deal with negative consequences is an attitude of acceptance

• Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. William James
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Beware the consequences of anger

• When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius
• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius
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The consequences of folly and weakness can be worse than wickedness

• Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. Aldous Huxley
• The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. Lady Marguerite Blessington
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• If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop. Kurt Cobain
• My Karma ran over your dogma.

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