"When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?”
“There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.”

Source : "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.
“The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.”
“If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.”
“Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.”
“A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.”

Source : Saint John of the Cross (1957). “The dark night of the soul”
“Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.”
“The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.”

Source : "Lucas Samaras: Father Of The Selfies". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2014.

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