Quotes and Sayings #2

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• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
• You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
• Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
• Fear is a dark room where negatives develop.
• Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
• ere is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
• Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
• Fear is the highest fence.
• To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
• Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
• Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
• He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
• The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
• Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.
• Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?
• To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.
• Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
• Anger is one letter short of danger.
• Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
• Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
• I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
• Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
• The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
• He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
• All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself
• Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
• Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
• No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious.
• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.
• If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
• We are betrayed by what is false within.
• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
• We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
• Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
• There is no god higher than truth.
• Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
• Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.
• There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
• If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
• Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
• There is no truth. There is only perception.
• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
• Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
• I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying.
• Tears are the silent language of grief.
• I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
• It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
• Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
• I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
• All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
• Love is blind; hate is deaf.
• We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
• If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.
• Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
• We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
• From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
• There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.
• Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
• Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
• Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident - It is as common as life.
• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
• Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together.
• We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

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