Life Paralysis Quotes

#1. Life-paralysis refers to all of the opportunities we miss because we're too afraid to put anything out in the world that could be imperfect.

Brene Brown

#2. Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

Brene Brown

#3. An old man in poor health, like my rival, could not be expected to be so impressively feeble as a young actor in the prime of life. You see, he really had paralysis, and working within this definite limitation, he couldn't be so jolly paralytic as I was.

Anonymous

#4. I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created within himself with positive genius a boundless and frightful capacity for pain.

Hermann Hesse

#5. The modern mind is never popular in its own day. People hate being made to think.

Edith Hamilton

#6. Evil is simply
a grammatical error:
a failure to leap
the precipice
between "he"
and "I.

Linda Pastan

#7. Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.

Patti Digh

#8. One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

Shane Claiborne

#9. While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

Harriet Martineau

#10. You are the most beautiful fairy from heaven. You have made my life a fairytale.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Eleanor Roosevelt

#12. So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

Chic Murray

#13. We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

Paul Watson

#14. Life too near paralyses art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness ... Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Jacob Burckhardt

#16. I love polarizing people.

Josh Gad

#17. Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach out to a sphere of light, beauty, truth, love, and power.

Paul Brunton

#18. After experiencing life in Nazi Germany, Thomas Wolfe wrote, Here was an entire nation ... infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations.

Erik Larson

#19. I suppose the daily disciplines are just a reflection of the qualities of my inner world - a mixture of paralysis and terror and a lighter, freer, kind of rebellious woman. So those are just constantly pushing against each other, and that's played out in every area of my life.

Miranda July

#20. I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.

Michael Nyqvist

#21. You can handle the wheelchair, said the occupational therapist, with a smile intended to make the remark sound like good news, whereas to my ears it had the ring of a life sentence.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#22. Get out of your own way ... stop the paralysis by analysis ... decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!

Steve Maraboli

#23. I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

John Piper

#24. Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

Susan Orlean

#25. The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?

Mary Engelbreit

#26. It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Sophocles

#27. River of life will always flow from The Church.

Paul Gitwaza

#28. Brave the skeletons, darling.

Emma Winters