"Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything."

-- Marcus Luttrell

#States Quotes #Force Quotes #Paralysis Quotes

“We're all unique and we all have our own talents. If you keep acknowledging your assets and accomplishments , and strive to be the best you can be, you'll let that 'not good enough' mentality go and be on your way to loving yourself, no matter what.”
“My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to things that might seem to threaten your particular social world. Education probably plays an important role in dampening that response by allowing the brain's frontal lobes (where much of the brain's conscious work goes on) to counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics.”

Source : Robin Dunbar (2011). “How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks”, p.170, Harvard University Press
“Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2011). “On Canaan's Side”, p.13, Faber & Faber
“The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question.”

Source : "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind".
“The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.”
“I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.”
“I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.”

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