"To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. . . . No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible."

-- Charles Baudouin

#Fear Quotes #Long Quotes #Effort Quotes

“I always knew the woman I wanted to be.”
“For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the small handful of books that communicate something of what Gurdjieff brought.”
“Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".”
“I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.”
“We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste”
“Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.”

Source : 1993 Of the Bert Lance Toe Test which he devised for his nine months in the Carter administration. In the Washington Post, 6 Oct.
“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

Source : 1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 3, sc.2.
“I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.”

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