"Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!"

-- Cheri Huber

#Self Quotes #Bravery Quotes #Want Quotes

“With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.”
“All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may not be seen (except afterwards, by historians) until the last great step. In many cases the full potentiality and force of a most radical step in such a sequence of transformations may not even be manifest to its author.”

Source : I. Bernard Cohen (1983). “The Newtonian Revolution”, p.162, Cambridge University Press
“They're getting crazier every day, the whole world's going crazy. And you got to take your mind out to keep your smile in place.”

Source : Wilhelmina Baird (1993). “Crashcourse”
“I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.”
“If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.”
“My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read widely, in a variety of time periods and cultures, to identify which traits of poems are appealing and which aversive. And what can be stolen.”
“This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.”
“If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.”

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