10 Quotes a Day: Fantasy, Family, Fashion, Fathers, Fear

Fantasy

1. “… the adult mind has, if anything, greater need of fantasy than that of a child.” (Loren Eisley, Review of ‘The Return of the King’)

Family

2. “There is no such thing as privacy with a family.” (Harold Robbins, The Piranhas)

3. “What your mother don’t know won’t hurt her.” (Harold Robbins, Stiletto)

Fashion

4. “Fashion changed, but the mania for being fashionable endured the ages.’ (Lucia St. Clair Robson, Tokaido)

5. “Fancies find room in the strongest minds.” (Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge)

Fathers

6. “But I guess Dad’s a better person than I am.” (Niki Burnham, Royally Jacked)

7. “It’s not such a terrible thing being your father’s son.” (Snow Falling on Cedars – motion picture)

Fear

8. “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” (J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)

9. “I said to him, ‘I am afraid.’
Herger replied to me: ‘That is because you think upon what is to come, and imagine fearsome things that would stop the blood of any man. Do not think ahead, and be cheerful by knowing that no man lives forever.’”
(Michael Crichton, The 13th Warrior)

10. “Fear has a white mouth.” (Michael Crichton, The 13th Warrior)

Author V.M. Simandan

is a Beijing-based Romanian positive psychology counsellor and former competitive archer

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