“we grow fearless when we do the things we fear”

“Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”

Arianna Huffington (1950) Greek-American author and syndicated columnist

“Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”

Tad Williams (1957) novelist

“When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.”

John Polanyi (1929) Hungarian-Canadian chemist

“We don't grow when things are simple and easy.
We Grow from the difficulties in Life.
The challenges
are put there,
not to break you…
but to Make You!”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

“We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright