A man without fear cannot be a slave.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way.
“Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.”
“Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.”
“The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.”
“Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.”
“The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.”
“Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.”
“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”
“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”
“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
“The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very ow...”
“Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as theyre told because they are hungry to get approval.”
“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”