Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear. —Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche More about this quote Tags: fear potential knowledge depression fearlessness courage transcending Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you. —Elmer Davis More about this quote Tags: fear Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The practice of terror serves the true believer not only to cow and crush his opponents but also to invigorate and intensify his own faith. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death doesn't take the time to knock on the door. —Yiddish folk saying More about this quote Tags: time death warning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen. —Carlos Fuentes More about this quote Tags: time perception change activity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The absence of the dead . . . is their way of appearing. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: death absence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time to plant tears, says the Almanac. —Elizabeth Bishop More about this quote Tags: time tears planting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. —Claudia Gray in Evernight More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am in love. For the first time in my life, utterly and completely, I have fallen in love, and I can not believe it myself. —Philippa Gregory in The Boleyn Inheritance More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What wonderful thing didn't start out scary? —Isaac Marion in Warm Bodies More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. —Bobby Knight More about this quote Tags: humor education accomplishment writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. —J. M. Barrie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. —Thomas Mann More about this quote Tags: difficulty writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. —Dr. Seuss More about this quote Tags: life reality laughter nonsense fantasy telescopes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email