John F. Murray famous quotes

Fear is essential for courage.
-- John F. Murray

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In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life