“Ignore the ones who say it’s too late to start over. Disregard those who say you’ll never amount to anything. Turn a deaf ear to those who say you aren’t smart enough, fast enough, tall enough, or big enough – ignore them.” Max Lucado: He Still Moves Stones
“Doubt is torture. If we give ourselves fully to something, it will be clearer when it might be appropriate to quit. It is a constant test of perseverance... Don’t listen to doubt. It leads no place but to pain and negativity.” Natalie Goldberg: Writing Down the Bones
“When you love someone, every moment is shadowed by the fear of loss. Then loss occurs, and you feel more love than ever. The more you loved, the more you feel the loss. Depression, then, may be seen as the strongest expression of love.” Roger Rosenblatt: Kayak Morning
“Perhaps the most impressive and memorable quality of the leaders we studied was the way they responded to failure... [T]hese leaders put all their energies into their task. They simply don’t think about failure, don’t even use the word. Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus: Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge
There are numerous Biblical references to the fact that no one would light a candle and put a basket over it, yet that’s a very apt metaphor for what most of us do, at least on occasion. As Marianne Williamson wrote in A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principle of a Course in Miracles (a quote often attributed to Nelson Mandela because he included it in his 1994 inaugural address): “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”
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