"...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most."

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Source : David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.13, Penguin

David Archuleta

#Fear Quotes #Scare Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“If we no longer judge the content of people's actions, but merely their form, then we are entering dangerous times indeed.”
“In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.”
“Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.”
“Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.”

Source : "Actress Andie MacDowell". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 16, 2010.
“I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.”
“I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Garboli, Lisa Ginzburg, Marino Sinibaldi (2003). “It's Hard to Talk about Yourself”, p.46, University of Chicago Press
“With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.”

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