Quotes of: Being-scared Keyword

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

To the Lighthouse

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.

The Love of Being Loving

Don't you see? You can't be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.

The Line

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

The Long Walk

This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,

Manhood for Amateurs

Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

Stand a Little Taller

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.

Till We Meet Again

Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was…terrifying." Muse

Ties That Bind

We are eternally Spiritual Beings, even in human form.

"There's DNA to Prove It": message from beyond

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

The One-Straw Revolution

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

The Poisonwood Bible

Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

The Poisonwood Bible

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Nothing can stop you from being happy except yourself. Focus on positive thoughts.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.

Prom and Prejudice