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Questioning ourselves for being ‘oversensitive’ is a common way that women, in particular, disqualify our legitimate anger and hurt. . . . The fact that some of us feel more vulnerable than others in a particular context does not mean we are weak or lesser in any way.
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Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.
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It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions.
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
One of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.