"The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive."

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Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

Ernest Becker

#Inspirational Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“We must dare to invent the future”
“Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.”
“My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?”
“It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and so were her daughter and granddaughter after her, and their place in the world was everywhere and nowhere, like gypsies on wing. No home had they but their caravans and campfires, and no family but the one they'd cobbled together of crows, creatures and kindred souls they'd met on their endless journey round and round the world.”
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
“Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.”

Source : "How to Utilize Your Mind, Through the Science of Practical Psychology".
“A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.”

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