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«Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn /the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.»
Author: Freya Stark
| Keywords:
barren, condemn, disapprove, disapproving, divinity, human soul, insulted, parenthood, righteousness, shrivel, shriveled, shrivels, shrivel up, thwarting, unafraid, venture
«What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.?»
«The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.»
Author: Vance Havner
| Keywords:
followed, stair, stairs, stare, stares, steps, step up, The Vision, up the stairs, venture, ventured, venturing, vision
«We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Criticism,
Friendship
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«Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
feels, good enough, venture, ventured, venturing
«There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.»
«Venture a small fish to catch a great one»
«Venture not to defend what your judgment doubts of»
«The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all philosophers up to this time have spoken reverently -- think what questions this will to truth has posed for us! What strange, wicked, questionable question!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
posed, questionable, reverently, seduce, truthfulness, venture
«Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Belief,
Success
| Keywords:
assures, assuring, belief, doubtful, outcome, outcomes, successful, undertaking, undertook, venture, ventured, venturing
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