Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

~ Anthony de Mello Quotes

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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

~ Nikola Tesla Quotes from Autobiography

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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from Heroism

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The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

~ David McCullough Quotes from 1776

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Responsibility of any kind can seem intimidating and for this reason man may often be afraid of truly deep relationships with other human beings. A relationship suggests to him the most extreme of responsibilities. It implies a burden, a restriction of freedom, seldom the converse. A student in love class, for instance, commented, “I’ve always been afraid of deep relationship because of the responsibility it seemed to impose. I was afraid of the demands it would make of me and I worried I wouldn’t be able to meet those demands. I was amazed to find that when I did get the courage to form a relationship, I actually became stronger. I acquired two minds instead of one, four hands, four arms, four legs, and another’s world. In joining forces with someone, I got twice the strength to grow, with twice as many alternatives. Now it’s easier for me to love others. I am stronger and I am less afraid.” He had discovered an important insight.

~ Leo Buscaglia Quotes from Love

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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

~ Gail Sheehy Quotes

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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

~ Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Quotes

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