Susan Piver quotes

“Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.”
-- Susan Piver

Source : "What is True Confidence?" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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“Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.”
-- Susan Piver

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“You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.”
-- Susan Piver

Source : "The Importance of Sadness" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2011.

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“A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.”
-- Susan Piver

Source : Susan Piver (2010). “The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: How to Turn the Pain of a Breakup Into Healing, Insight, and New Love”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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“. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.”
-- Susan Piver

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“So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.”

“Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.”

“We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.”

“I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.”

Source : "Drop Dead Healthy" by A.J. Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.

“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”

“He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.”

“The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.”

“They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.”

“There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.”

“Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market,”