Barefoot Contessa

Friday, September 2, 2011

Friday, August 5, 2011

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
William Allen White

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
Japanese Proverb

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ~Betty Bender

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.
Unknown

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Quotes I Fancy 2

For that is the mark of the Scots of all classes:
that he stands in an attitude towards the past
unthinkable to Englishmen, and remembers and
cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or
bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity
with the dead even to the twentieth generation.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish by birth, British by law,
Highlander by the grace of God.
Anonymous

Sunday, July 10, 2011

My Lord God,

I have no idea where I am going
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself,
And the fact that I think I am following
your will does not mean that I am
actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please
you does in fact please you.
And I hope that I have that desire in all
that I am doing.
And I know that if I do this, you
will lead me by the right road
though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always
though I may seem to be lost
and in the shadow of death, I will
not fear, for you are ever with me
and you will never leave me
to face my perils alone.

thomas merton