Jessa Mae

“Those who are afraid to live are already partly dead.”
― Kenneth Wilson, Have Faith Without Fear

“The thing is that hurt is of itself part of the wholeness of living. Furthermore, the risk of it is part of the wholeness of faith.”
― Kenneth Wilson, Have Faith Without Fear

“What do you think?" shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing, too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird. Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped. There have been examples. And what are we doing now? In science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aims, liberalism, judgment, experience and everything, everything, everything, we are still in the preparatory class at school. We prefer to live on other people's ideas, it's what we are used to! Am I right, am I right?" cried Razumihin, pressing and shaking the two ladies' hands.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“With that kind of fear out of the way--fear of what is out there at the next stepping-stone or around the next bend in the road or under the next leaf of the calendar--we're just about ready to start living. For it's not all out there ahead somewhere. If we're going to live, now is where we shall have to do it. For one thing--as of this moment, now is all we've got.”
― Kenneth Wilson, Have Faith Without Fear