Paralyzed Quotes - Page 7

• The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Thinking, Rights

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, Booklassic

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• The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he says, over and over; and he is. But that very identification with victimhood keeps the soul house open and available for still more invasions. Most American men today do not have enough awakened or living warriors inside to defend their soul houses. And most people, men or women, do not know what genuine outward or inward warriors would look like, or feel like.

  Robert Bly

  Warrior, Boys, Men

  Robert Bly (2004). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.149, Da Capo Press

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• I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

  Anais Nin

  Analysis, Brake

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• You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fear Of Failure, Push Yourself

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• But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

  Melody Carlson

  Running, Fear, Winning

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Finding Alice”, p.14, WaterBrook

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• Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fear, Real, Believe

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• I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.

  Maria Bamford

  Funny

  "The Now Show", 2006.

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• Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

  Chuck Barris

  Effort, Feelings, Rotten

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• Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.

  W Mitchell

  Focus, Lost, Left

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• The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people.

  Billy Graham

  America, People, News

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Feb 13, 2015

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• Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Practice, People

  Teresa Of Avila (2004). “The Interior Castle”, p.29, Penguin

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• I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague impressions of those days because it was a time of complete darkness for me. Somebody told me later that what I had was a form of hysteria: my body and my mid fled into paralysis. There was nothing wrong with me organically, but somewhere inside I suffered a complete breakdown.

  Diet Eman

  Moving, Hysteria, Darkness

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• I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

  Francine Prose

  Children, Grief, Book

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• I do not like to encourage personalized politics, so we would not like it to be thought that just because certain political personalities were attacked, this means the situation is very grave. The true gravity of the situation comes from the fact that ordinary members of the NLD are repressed all the time. We don't want a completely paralyzed political organization, while a select few leaders are protected by international attention.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Mean, Organization, Leader

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• The world is changing so rapidly, and many people are paralyzed with fear and anxiety about the future. The angels can guide us through these changes, and give us solid guidance that we can trust.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, People, Giving

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• I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

  Sarah Silverman

  Kids, People, Unbearable

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• Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

  Will Smith

  Distance, Night, Wings

  Song: Afro Angel, Album: Willennium

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• It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

  David Hockney

  Views, Mind, World

  Lawrence Weschler, David Hockney, Getty Foundation (2008). “True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney”, Univ of California Pr

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• A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Would Be, World, Stability

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• We've created a device that has absolutely no limitations. There's no insurance company that can say 'no.' There's no hospital that can say 'no.' Anybody who's paralyzed now has access to draw or communicate using only their eyes.

  Mick Ebeling

  Eye, Technology, Communicate

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• The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Blessing

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being".

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• Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Want, Vivid, Talent

  Van Wyck Brooks (1968). “Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921”

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• . . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain with the swipe of a paw. I sit there, flying on, and continue to stare, as though mesmerised, at the Cauldron on my left.

  Ernst Udet

  Blood, Flying, Brain

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• When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if somebody is surprisingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order - you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your moth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.

  Daniel Handler

  Eye, Often Is, Order

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• Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

  David Pryce-Jones

  Order, Abuse, Islam

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