Quotes of Ernest Becker

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The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

- Ernest Becker

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“ Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ”

- Orhan Pamuk

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ 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. ”

- Anais Nin

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living. ”

- Steven Spielberg

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- Victoria Moschou

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours] ”

- Taylor Swift

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

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- Soe Hok Gie

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton