"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. For now you are traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be."
~Meg Cabot

Sleep is the best meditation.--Dalai Lama

" Stubborn and hardheaded people tend to be the least fearful. Because they will refuse to be scared at the will of another." Unknown



"Fear defeats life if you avoid what you fear. Your avoidings become your darkness they are your limitations. If you live inside your limitations you lead a small boring limited life. Wasting away in your limitations, pathetically rotting on the vine." Unknown

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.--Charles Dudley Warner

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Eskimo kisses by Frozen Beauty <3
 

rush to me
in sweet embrace
rewrite passion
across my face
hold my hand
to your heart
as you lead us
through the dark
sink in silence
pull me close
alluding words
we never spoke
lips and nose
brush lightly
breathing in
out with me

~Frozen Beauty

"Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity...Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom.... love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'."
~M. Scott Peck

"So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, they soon become Inevitable."
~Christopher Reeve

Do you go the extra mile? Do you do more than is expected? Or do you do just enough to get by? Going the extra mile means taking what you have and looking for ways to expand it - you believe in your ability to make it happen. It means moving beyond limiting beliefs, restrictive behaviors and being willing to have more that you do right now.

~Iyanla Vanzant

I'd rather have a life of 'Oh well's' than a life of What if's.'

"Someone told me once that every time when I was growing up and my needs weren't met, it's like a ghost of me at that age was created.

So if I was 6 years old and a parent was emotionally unavailable or something like that, and I so needed that validation and that need wasn't met, immediately a ghost of that 6 year old was created and it follows me around for the rest of my life.

I then continually perpetuate that by rejecting my feelings when I think I need some emotional support. I'm like, "no, no, no - I shouldn't be needing emotional support." And that 6 year old is triggered all over again and that ghost is still there.

And someone told me I could just accept it - that I didn't have to act on it, I could just accept it. I could just say to myself, "I know you're scared, you need emotional support. I've got your back."

- The Recovery Show podcast