Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“I believe having a vision in mind, a goal let's say, is a good thing. Unfortunately, so many of us are blinded… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
“The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
I suppose the daily disciplines are just a reflection of the qualities of my inner world - a mixture of paralysis and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues. — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning, and I couldn't move my arm. It was the oddest thing, the paralysis. I called up a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people;… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days--good days--you can run three miles, but… — Jennifer Starzec Copy Share Image
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie. — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
I'm in my 30's, and I'm still struggling with defining myself. I'm working every day to take control of things that are… — Lauren Iungerich Copy Share Image
