"Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid."

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Source : Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

Guus Kuijer

#Being Afraid Quotes

“When you've never had something, you want it worse than anything,”
“I guess I just take things as they come now, as far as that goes. I get really excited to do the project, but I don't think too much beyond that.”
“I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".”
“Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis of all action and preception. The only difference is that one 'knows' himself for what he is while the other does not. The idea of being a person, an ego, is nothing other than an image held together by memory.”

Source : Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, p.11, New Harbinger Publications
“I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.”
“More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.”
“Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.”
“Iâ€™m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.”

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