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“Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.”
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“… when you blame any outside force for any of your experience of life, you are literally giving away all your power and thus creating pain, paralysis and depression.”
― Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
― Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
“Being a critic is easy.
But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his criticisms.
Criticism without a solution is merely an inflation of the critic's ego.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his criticisms.
Criticism without a solution is merely an inflation of the critic's ego.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
“… the secret in handling fear is to move yourself from a position of pain to a position of power.”
― Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
― Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
“Do not fight your negative emotions. Observe and befriend them.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World
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