"The years of imprisonment hardened me.... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life, I no longer have the emotion of fear.there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known."

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Source : "Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies aged 81" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2018.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

#Pain Quotes #Fear Quotes #Blow Quotes

“I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.”

Source : "'Hunger Games'star Willow Shields takes us behind the scenes of 'The Haunting Hour'". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. November 2, 2012.
“You cannot stay the way you are and go with God.”
“Every fear is fear of death.”

Source : Wilhelm Stekel (1999). “Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment”, p.377, Psychology Press
“We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.”
“People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.”
“A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.”
“It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.”
“It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume

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