Feel the Fear… and Do It Anyway: Dynamic Techniques for Turning Fear, Indecision, and Anger into Power, Action, and Love

by Susan Jeffers

Look around and see who you would love to include in your circle of friends . . . then contact them and make plans to get together. Don’t sit around waiting for them to get in touch with you.

Our partners often perceive that they have much to lose when we begin rocking the boat. It might take a while for them to realize they have more to gain by our growth.

the richer our lives, the more likely we are to experience the pain of loss. If we have a multitude of friends, we will have to deal with more goodbyes. The more we are able to reach out into the world, the greater the likelihood that we are going to experience “failure” or rejection. But those who are living rich lives wouldn’t change them for a moment. They delight in the opportunity to taste all that life has to offer—the good and the bad.

They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way. The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even in the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life.

If all your “giving” is about “getting,” think how fearful you will become. More

Attention is one of the easiest and meaningful things we can give away. Pay attention to giving away attention.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.