"What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones."

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Source : Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins

Sharon Creech

#Fear Quotes #Expectations Quotes #People Quotes

“After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.”
“Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.”
“Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.”
“Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.”
“My number one rule is to keep that camera rolling. Even if it's shaky or slightly out of focus, I don't give a rip. Even if a big old alligator is chewing me up I want to go down and go, 'Crikey!' just before I die. That would be the ultimate for me.”
“I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble”
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

Source : On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)
“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

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