#709 - “Comfort sells easier than happiness. Comfort is easy. It requires no effort and now work. Happiness takes effort. It requires being proactive, confronting fears, facing difficult situations, and having unpleasant conversations.” — Mark Manson
#518 - “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
#457 - “Only a person who has enjoyed his life becomes capable of enjoying his death. And if you are capable of enjoying your death, you have defeated death. Then there is no more birth for you and no more death for you — you have learned the lesson.” — Osho
#439 - “Go to your fears, sit with them, stare at them. Your fears are your friend, their only job is to show you undeveloped parts of yourself that you need to cultivate to live a happy life. The more you do the things you’re most afraid of doing the more life opens up. Embrace your fears and your fears will embrace you.” — Jackson Kiddard
#410 - “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.” — Caroline Myss
#313 - “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.” — Henry David Thoreau
#300 - “Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
#217 - “Find the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of the ego. The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with running away is the key? Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.” — Pema Chodron
ABOUT THIS PHOTO: Justin Paul is a DJ and founder/owner of Playloop Music, a record label based in Los Angeles. Check out his party, 12 DJ’s of Christmas on Friday, December 16th in DTLA.
