"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."

-- Hans Selye

#Fear Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.”

Source : Janice Kaplan (1979). “Women and Sports: 2”, Viking Adult
“The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.”
“Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.”

Source : Henry Drummond (2013). “The Greatest Thing in the World: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc
“The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.”
“I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.”

Source : "The kiss of death" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.
“This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, Speed Racer is an excess of nothingness.”

Source : "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.
“Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.”
“How much of what the biblical writers believed about the supernatural world do I believe? They weren't us. We are products of the Enlightenment; they were not. So let's stop denying that reality. Rather than sitting in judgment on them from our Enlightenment perches, we ought to have them sit in judgment on us when it comes to informing us about the supernatural world. After all, what they wrote was ultimately overseen by God.”

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