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It’s up to us to make the choice to be grateful even when things aren’t going well. Nouwen calls that the “discipline of gratitude.” To me, it means not just being grateful for the good things, because that’s easy, but also to be grateful
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“I’ll then take a deep look into the three kinds of fear: fear of suffering, fear of failure and fear of conflict.”
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
“the fear of giving offence creates more problems than it solves. Ultimately what you’re scared of is that your hosts won’t like you because you’ve, say, thrown a chewing-gum wrapper on the fire. But most people are reasonable.”
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”
― What Happened
― What Happened
“In the end, we choose what we want to believe. We shape the truth to fit our requirements, because otherwise life would be just too hard to bear.”
― See How They Run
― See How They Run
“Staying in that corridor doesn’t just mean remaining where you are, being the same person forever. It means you shrink. You get weaker. More pathetic. Fear is a magic shrinking potion. If you don’t learn to harness it, it will make you smaller and smaller and smaller.”
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
― The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
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