“It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.”

“Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in ...”

“There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hunge...”

“A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.”

“Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances it makes chances. ”

“He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.”

“If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.”

“I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.”

“How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?”

“The sun rises bright and beautiful as if it feels no pain.It must not see, it must not hear, it can't possibly or it would not be able to overcome so defiantly.My bed creaks and whines when I leave...”

“When you learn to love your past it becomes the wings that allow you to fly rather than the burden you drag along behind you.”

“One of the central elements of resilience, Bonanno has found, is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an opportunity to learn and grow? Events are not traumatic until we ex...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”