As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

From caring comes courage.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

To live is to think.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

God helps those who help themselves.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.