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“I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to be afraid, and also that it was pointless - possibly wasted, if the feared thing never did materialize. But now that fear has packed its miserable bags and is running out the door, making slamming noises to call attention to itself, I begin to see how much room fear has occupied. What opportunity opens up!”
Source : Jan Frazier (2012). “The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is”, p.216, Weiser Books
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“True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.”
Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.19, Regnery Publishing
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“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.”
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“Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob.”
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“A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.”
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“Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.”
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“If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart”
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“...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?”
Source : Abelardo Morell (1995). “A camera in a room: photographs”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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“The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.”
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“It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.”
