"Iâ€™m not afraid to take a swing and miss."

-- Frederick W. Smith

#Swings Quotes #Missing Quotes #Not Afraid Quotes

“I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.”
“The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.”
“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.”
“It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.”
“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.”

Source : "Escape from Freedom". "Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination", Vol 1, No 2, 2006.
“A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.”
“Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.”
“The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.”

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