“There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.”

— Ally Carter, book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

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American writer 1974

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion—our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge.”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

Confucius Saw Nancy and Essays about Nothing (1936), p. 95

“If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

“Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

“How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 8

“Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.”

James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 58).

“The sincerity of love that is willing to sacrifice is the essence of noble love. Love that does not think of itself. Love that is willing to do anything for the happiness of the person it loves.”

Titon Rahmawan