#ear

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. ↗

— Jack Layton

#better #change #change the world #despair #fear

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#fear #felt #grief #like #me

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#adversity #character #give #him #man

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fear #fools #rush #tread #where

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#fearlessness #live-in-the-moment #beauty

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ↗

— Plato

#another #back #becomes #every #every heart

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#eccentric #every #fear #now #once

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#dozen #get #handle #how #ideas

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fear #gender-roles #age

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#name-of-the-wind #patrick-rothfuss #wisdom #anger