"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice."

-- Pema Chodron

#Choices Quotes #Scare Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.”
“Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield
“Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.”
“Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.”
“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
“I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.”
“People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.”

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