"It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid."

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Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Sep 23, 2016

Harriet Lerner

#Running Quotes #Brave Quotes #Want Quotes

“Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.”
“Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 06, 2015
“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”
“MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.”
“There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.”
“There was an exchange between me and Andy Warhol. We met, we liked each other, we appreciated each other. He would come to us for Easter in Marrakech. In September we would meet up in Venice. And every time I went to New York I would spend some time with him at the Factory, where we would have dinner together. He's a man that I admired deeply. He shook up the notion of painting - not as much as Marcel Duchamp had done, but he was part of the same general movement. And then we both admired art deco.”
“Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.”
“I don't have many friends.”

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