“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”

“When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.”

“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”

“It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.”

“One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.”

“A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.”

“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”