Surpassing Fears Quotes

#1. And while a small measure of bitterness might've protected me from time to time, as it sometimes does, I've learned that sweet memories don't walk through cynical doors.

Gregory David Roberts

#2. Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.

Margaret Atwood

#3. I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

Irakli Okruashvili

#4. Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality.

Kilian Jornet

#5. Die knowing something. You're not here long.

Walker Evans

#6. I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.

Billy Barty

#7. The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

Gustave Le Bon

#8. The world was full of life, more life than they could hold back with guns or fences; it came into the town at night; it seduced the children and year by year crept closer.

C.J. Cherryh

#9. Ted Cruz is tailored his message for a specific conservative evangelical. I think it's limited his appeal. I think he has the ability to appeal to everybody.

Rush Limbaugh

#10. When someone focuses on the expectation of accolades rather than the enjoyment of the work process, that person is setting up himself for disappointment.

Steve Hickner

#11. I love you, but you are another death, a death that has stayed with me and befriended me as the old death in the lake did, but death all the same.

Gene Wolfe