Stanza 8
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)
as quoted in Khushwant Singh, The Freethinker's Prayer Book (2013), p. 35
“Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.”
Source: Bangkok Tattoo
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Source: The Wee Free Men
“Let a child but be ordered to whip his top at a certain time every day”
Sec. 73
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: None of the things they learn, should ever be made a burthen to them, or impos's on them as a task. Whatever is so proposed, presently becomes irksome; the mind takes an aversion to it, though before it were a thing of delight or indifferency. Let a child but be ordered to whip his top at a certain time every day, whether he has or has not a mind to it; let this be but requir'd of him as a duty, wherein he must spend so many hours morning and afternoon, and see whether he will not soon be weary of any play at this rate. Is it not so with grown men?
The Mysteries of Udolpho, Shipwreck; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 704.
Attributed
“Let's dance for fear your grace should fall
Let's dance for fear tonight is all”
Let's Dance
Song lyrics, Let's Dance (1983)
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
