"The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully."

-- Tara Brach

#Focus Quotes #Survival Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.”
“You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.”
“I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.”
“Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!”

Source : Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.
“Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.”
“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.”

Source : Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK
“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”
“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.”

You may also like: