Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We think too much and feel too little.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Each day provides its own gifts.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Never take anything for granted.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.