Category: Fear

The Why Behind Your Run

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

— Thurber —

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why…

Who Adjusts Your Sails?

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

— John Maxwell —

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

Detach From Noise

To find peace, you have to be willing to lose your connection with all the people, places and things that create all the noise in your life.

— Unknown —

To find peace, you have to be willing to lose your connection with all the people, places and things that create all the noise in your life…

Courage-Faith-Hope

You do not need to know precisely what is happening or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.

— Thomas Merton —

You do not need to know precisely what is happening or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope…

Failing Forward

Often the seed of tomorrow's success is hidden within today's failure.

— Steven Furtick —

Often the seed of tomorrow’s success is hidden within today’s failure…

Uncertainty Soil

Fear and faith need the same thing: the soil of uncertainty.

— Unknown —

Fear and faith need the same thing: the soil of uncertainty…

Entering New Caves

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

— Joseph Campbell —

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek…

How Far?

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

— T. S. Eliot —

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go…

Lent Day 41 – Peace and Worry

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and the one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. (OUCH!!!)

— Mahatma Gandhi —

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and the one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever…