Paul Rogat Loeb Quotes

#1. Allowing anyone, even Mairelon, not only to come close to her, but to circle her waist with his arms brought back old fears, though she had to admit that the sensation was pleasurable on those rare occasions when she could relax enough to enjoy it.

Patricia C. Wrede

#2. History ... shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#3. She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.

Henry James

#4. None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#5. Simply unleashing our imaginations can be empowering.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#6. Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#7. A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

Patrick Ness

#8. Anxiety is a state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation. Often, men will appear confident and self-assured to others but actually be living with a great deal of worry and fear.

Jed Diamond

#9. Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#10. We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions ... When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#11. If you found God with great ease, perhaps it's not God that you have found.

Thomas Merton