Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
- Topic: Fear, Life
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More Quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.
› Thich Nhat Hanh
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
› Thich Nhat Hanh
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
› Thich Nhat Hanh
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
› Thich Nhat Hanh
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Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
› Paulo Coelho
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
› Marylyn Ferguson
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
› Francis Bacon
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
› Michel de Montaigne
The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.
› Robert Kiyosaki
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
› William Shakespeare
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
› Buddha
Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!
› Jeffrey Benjamin
The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
› Rumi
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
› Marcus Aurelius
My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.
› Seneca
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
› Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
› Thomas Sowell
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
› Bruce Lee
No garden is without its weeds.
› Thomas Fuller
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
› Jim Rohn
