"Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you."

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Source : Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.161, Penguin

Maureen Johnson

#Hurt Quotes #Snakes Quotes #Giving Quotes

“No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.”
“In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying.”
“Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.”
“When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.”
“When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.”
“Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.”
“What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.”
“But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.80, Head of Zeus

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