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“Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.”

Way Moments Inspiration Culture Passion Born Danger Inspire Alternatives

Author:Jello Biafra

“A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.”

Moments Danger Regard Fellows Obsession Tendencies Appointments

Book:Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography

Source: Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography

“I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.”

Ifs Thinking Men Done Moments Used Hours Half Danger Letters Respectable Here I Am Pretension Half Hours

Book:Quite Early One Morning

Source: Quite Early One Morning

“I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.”

Moments Space Danger Strange Crowded

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

“It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.”

Moments Turns My Own Steps Dangerous Danger Materials Exciting Constant Tension Nerves Every Step Tolls Warrants

Author:Diet Eman

“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”

Way Mean Doe Moments Past Memories Danger Flash

Author:Walter Benjamin

“Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.”

Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”

Men Giving May Moments Passion Next House Force Forget Behinds Fire Too Much Doors Danger Return Giving Up Overcoming Flames Neglected Inferno

Author:Carl Jung

“When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.”

Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

“Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.”

People Believe Children Moments Happens Suffering Nations Race Responsibility Accepting Danger Mines Guilt My Children Association Asia Central Asia

Author:Margaret Mead