I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore. | |
— William O. Douglas | |
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Enduring Success |
2021 | Dealing With Trumpism, Racism and Fascism In America |
Just Wondering | |
2020 | And So Must Good Government |
2019 | Are You Done Watching? |
2018 | Spineless Capitulation By The Democrats |
Woe Is Me… | |
2017 | Sincerely Yours |
2016 | Only Good To Say |
2015 | A Series Of Temporary Conditions |
2014 | Gaps |
2013 | Duty |
2012 | Cost Not Price |
Superheroes | |
2011 | The Simple Normalcy Of Everyday Life – “Squirrel!” |
Posts Tagged ‘Fear’
Finding Richness
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Adventure, Excitement, Fear, Independence, Life, Philosophy, Quotes, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas on January 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Courage To Love
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Control, Courage, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Fear, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Respect on January 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We’re afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, ‘What a jerk!’ It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. | |
— Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Pass A Voting Rights Act For Democracy’s Sake |
2021 | Tomorrow President Biden Starts Wrestling |
Good-Bye #45 | |
2020 | The Burden Of Faith |
On To Superbowl LIV (54)!! | |
2019 | Are Your Dogs Barking? |
Dangerous Waistcoats | |
2018 | And 40+ Years Later? |
2017 | He Is Alone |
2016 | Compensation |
2015 | Charlie Redux |
2014 | The Crux |
2013 | Erosion And Rechannelling |
Alliance, n. | |
2012 | How Many Thought… (One I Know Of) |
Choices And Decisions | |
2011 | Speed Spoils |
Simply Intended | |
2010 | A Second 4 Hour Jog |
Decrease Your Limits To Increase Your Rates
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Failure, Fear, Limits, Philosophy, Quotes, Success, Thomas J. Watson on January 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new. | |
― Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. | |
― Thomas J. Watson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Defeated: So Far (Anyway) |
2021 | Elections Have Consequences |
It’s Cold Way Down There | |
2020 | Fearless Security |
2019 | I Prefer A Neat Single Malt |
2018 | Seeking Finer Fruits |
2017 | Something That Is Absolute |
2016 | Animate And Encourage |
Out Of Time | |
2015 | In Time |
2014 | Robust Interconnectivity |
2013 | What Have We Here? |
2012 | Tributaries And Eddies |
An Honest Politician | |
2011 | Penultimate |
Exaggerating, Imagining, Anticipating
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Crisis, Fear, Imagination, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, On Groundless Fear, Philosophy, Quotes, Reality, Seneca the Younger, Sorrow, Strength, Weakness on October 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »
There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality. What I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the crisis comes. Accordingly, some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow. We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness. | |
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |
Known as: Seneca the Younger | |
From: “On Groundless Fear” (Letter 13 of the “Moral Letters to Lucilius“) | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Creation Without Reservation |
From The Tiniest Embers | |
2020 | Listening To The Trees |
Your Mind’s Made Up? | |
2019 | In Silence |
Not Much Light Here | |
2018 | A Gift |
2017 | Unless You Genuinely Are Small |
2016 | B1 |
2015 | Five Things |
2014 | Have Faith |
2013 | Found In A Mine |
2012 | Two-Sided Coin |
2011 | Passionately Scorned Rules |
Choose Hope Today
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Choice, Fear, Hardship, Hope, Nelson Mandela, Philosophy, Quotes, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tomorrow on September 22, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. | |
— Thich Nhat Hahn | |
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. | |
— Nelson Mandela | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | What Will You Become? |
Life’s Illusions | |
2020 | Rules Of Morality |
Tempting Fate | |
2019 | Good People On Both Sides? |
2018 | Schedule, Please |
2017 | No Hope For #DumbDonald |
2016 | Do Something |
2015 | What Are You Making Now? |
2014 | Like Fire Burning In My Heart |
2013 | Oh Yes He Can! |
2012 | Enquiries |
2011 | The Prize: Understanding |
2010 | Can You Tell My Scanner Works? |
Rebecca – The Early Years | |
James – The Early Years | |
Brothers By Another Mother | |
Recovering From The #45 / COVID Induced Inflation / Recession
Posted in Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #45, America, COVID, Economics, Fear, Inflation, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Recession, Warren Buffett on July 3, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time. | |
— Warren Buffett | |
It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. | |
— Warren Buffett | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Sift And Stir |
Some Oaktown Beat | |
2020 | Role Reversal |
Time To Defend The Constitution (Part I) | |
Time To Defend The Constitution (Part II) | |
2019 | Right Or Wrong |
2018 | Open Doors |
2017 | When It Deserves It |
2016 | Expiation For Rest |
2015 | You’ll Get Through It |
2014 | A Special Kind Of Fall |
2013 | Very Rewarding |
2012 | MIB3 – The Team Is Closer Than Ever |
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2011 | Little By Little |
Be More Cattle, Less Hat
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Being Creative, Being Wrong, Fear, Frazz, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Philosophy, Quotes, Showing Up on June 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The world does not belong to those who sign up. The world belongs to those who show up. | |
— Frazz | |
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. | |
— Joseph Chilton Pearce | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Why Republicans Are Failing America |
Dreams Come True | |
2020 | Normal Scientific Assumptions |
2019 | Close Change |
2018 | Don’t Break It |
2017 | Representative Government For The 99% |
2016 | Trying To Ignite Ice |
2015 | Or Increasingly Unwilling To Pay For… |
2014 | Returning Time |
2013 | Gentle Invitation |
2012 | Pleading The Insanity Defense |
2011 | Graduations And Conservatives |
The Big Sin | |
Courage In Ukraine
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Ambrose Redmoon, Courage, Fear, Freedom, Judgment, Philosophy, Quotes, Ukraine on March 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. | |
— Ambrose Redmoon | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Enjoying The Getting There |
And I Carry It With Me | |
2020 | Might As Well Jump |
2019 | Just Sitting Here… |
2018 | My Experience As Well |
2017 | He’s Making A List |
2016 | Mere Specks |
2015 | Day To Day Success |
2014 | We Have Ignition! |
2013 | The Dreamer |
2012 | I Err Gladly |
2011 | Ill Executed |
And You? | |
Most First Steps Start From Here
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Fear, Kathleen Norris, Philosophy, Quotes, Spiritual Journey on March 12, 2022| 6 Comments »
Fear is not a bad place to start a spiritual journey. | |
— Kathleen Norris | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | B3: Start By Just Being You |
Everybody Tells Me So | |
2020 | Never B3 |
2019 | No Small Thing |
2018 | Unsaid And Undone |
2017 | Evidence Of Faith |
2016 | Patience Is A Virtue |
2015 | Slow Faith |
2014 | Not In Any Sense |
2013 | The Circus On TV |
2012 | To Be Stronger |
2011 | Are You Sure? |
A “Modest” Goal
Posted in Economics, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Business, Economics, Fear, Greed, Investment, Philosophy, Quotes on July 12, 2021| Leave a Comment »
…We have no idea – and never have had – whether the market is going to go up, down, or sideways in the near- or intermediate term future. | |
What we do know, however, is that occasional outbreaks of those two super-contagious diseases, fear and greed, will forever occur in the investment community. The timing of these epidemics will be unpredictable. And the market aberrations produced by them will be equally unpredictable, both as to duration and degree. Therefore, we never try to anticipate the arrival or departure of either disease. Our goal is more modest: we simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. | |
— Warren Buffett | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | BLM |
2019 | Courage And Patience |
2018 | Push The Envelope |
2017 | Ents |
2016 | Are You Sure? |
2015 | Distracted |
2014 | What It Takes |
2013 | We Are |
2012 | Utopian |
2011 | Seen Any Black Swans Lately? |
Seeking Happiness
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Activity, Fear, Happiness, Leo Tolstoy, Love, Philosophy, Quotes on March 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind . . . For love not only annihilates our fear of meaningless but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness. | |
— Leo Tolstoy | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Expectation For The Near Future |
2019 | Indian Myth |
Did He Even Have The Courage To Ask? | |
2018 | Nothing |
2017 | Approval First |
2016 | In Search Of Words |
Day 2 – Blending | |
2015 | At What Price? |
2014 | Intricate And Subtle Order |
2013 | Attention To Detail |
2012 | Aequanimitas! |
2011 | Consider This |
Waiting For 20 January 2021
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Confidence, Courage, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fear, Horror, Philosophy, Quotes, Strength on November 10, 2020| Leave a Comment »
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You MUST do the thing that you think you cannot do. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | My Thoughts On Global Climate Change |
And Never Understand | |
2020 | Waiting For 20 January 2021 |
#45: You Would Cry Too… | |
2019 | #Corrupt45 Fails Another Great Test |
2018 | Where The Economy Is Headed Thanks To #IncompetentDonald |
2017 | Time For More Research, Too |
2016 | Original Thoughts |
2015 | If They’re Good Enough |
2014 | Three… |
2013 | Uncle Joe’s Song |
Live, Then, As If… | |
2012 | Still Trying |
2011 | Not Deserving |
I Am Learning
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Fear, Learning, Louisa May Alcott, Philosophy, Quotes, Sailing, Ships, Storms on August 31, 2020| 1 Comment »
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. | |
–– Louisa May Alcott | |
From her book: “Little Women“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | To Trust Providence |
Exactly | |
2020 | I Am Learning |
Plus Plus | |
2019 | Day 2: All Things Considered |
The Path To Reward | |
2018 | Ryan, McConnell & The Republican Controlled Congress |
The Proud Dad | |
Day 35: Five(5) Weeks Completed! | |
2017 | Serving Is Proving Harder Than Winning For #DumbDonald |
2016 | Come Again… |
2015 | At Five |
2014 | Touching The Past |
The Supreme Question | |
2013 | Children Will Judge |
2012 | Liar, n. |
2011 | Freedom To Doubt |
Saddle Up!
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Courage, Fear, John Wayne, Philosophy, Quotes, Saddle Up, Scared on August 15, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Courage is being scared to death . . . and saddling up anyway. | |
— John Wayne | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Welcome Home |
The Whole Community | |
2018 | The Cells Are Right |
Day 19: Broth | |
2017 | Be Responsible |
2016 | Thinking About November 8th, 2016 |
2015 | Lonely Teardrops |
2014 | Pleasurable Law |
2013 | Room For Justice |
In The Minds Of Others | |
2012 | Extinction, n. |
2011 | Snap! |
Too Frightening For Too Many
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Fear, Freedom, Fright, Growing Up, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Requirements, Responsibility on August 2, 2020| 4 Comments »
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Just One |
2018 | And Not Be Just Vain, Greedy And Dumb |
Day 6: Tickin’ Badly | |
2017 | The Soul Of Victory |
2016 | Getting Furrowed? |
2015 | Pretty Good So Far |
2014 | Still Learning? |
There Ain’t No Thing Like Me, ‘Cept Me! | |
2013 | Little Lives |
2012 | Evolution |
2011 | Excellence At Performance = 10,000 Hours |
2009 | A Brief Poem… |
Crater Lake Trip with James | |