I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from
Don't fear failure, it's a testament of your bravery. It's proof you are making progress and not standing still.
Whatever it is you desire to become tomorrow, start doing it today. You don't go into your future, you grow it.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations; they’re antithetical to the poetry of fear.
It's a dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we'll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the dark. Especially in the dark.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
It’s a dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the dark. Especially in the dark.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Sometimes we ask God to change what's happening to us, but he puts us in those situations to change something in us. If only we can endure, we will come out better.
Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes. Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree
Fear is a natural emotion, but it should never dictate your actions. Face your fears with courage and conviction.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.