Myra Beatrice’s Reviews > Just Saying: Exploring twenty-five remarkable quotations to enlighten, challenge and inspire > Status Update

“Williamson also wrote: ‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.’ We hide behind claims of modesty or shyness or inadequacy: Oh, I couldn’t do that! But what if ‘that’ is something that could bring you into the light — something that might allow you to flourish as a loving, giving human?”

“The melancholy truth is that many of us are frightened by the demands of living lovingly, when it sometimes seems easier to resort to negative, egotistical alternatives…”

“Fundamentalists and assorted religious extremists and fanatics are so passionately certain of the invincibility of their own position; so sure of themselves, so obstinate, that there doesn’t actually seem to be any room for faith…Doubt is the oxygen that keeps the flickering candle of faith alive: I believe precisely because I can’t know.”

“There’s a childlike innocence about curiosity. An openness. A flexibility, too, that allows us to move on from something that isn’t working and look for something that works better.”