The thing you think you cannot do
Subtitle: thirty truths about fear and courage
By: Gordon Livingston
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780738215525
Subjects: Fear; Courage; Conduct of life
Table of contents: title: It is dying that makes life important; title: Fear is the death of reason; title: Matters of the heart (or of state) that begin with a lie rarely end well; title: You have never suffered enough; title: Sometimes courage is hoping against hope; title: Old age is the revenge of the ugly; title: In life beyond high school, no one give you credit for effort; title: Fear lurks behind perfectionism; title: Courage is not a feeling; it is a habit; title: Beware of ideas on which we all agree; title: There is  no humor in heaven; title: Determination in the pursuit of folly is the indulgence of fools; title: Courage can be taught only by example; title: Nothing prepares us for the terrible risk of intimacy; title: Life is not a rehearsal; title: Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it; title: Punishment and revenge are the favored responses of fearful people; title: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage; title: Cowardice is the incapacity to love anything but oneself; title: Honesty is a prerequisite for courage; title: Fear springs from ignorance; title: It is pointless to fear the past; title: There are wounds that doctors cannot reach, that gratitude cannot heal; title: Courage is required to bear the unbearable; title: Ignorance can be remedied; stupidity has no cure; title: Heroism is sometimes stubbornness in the face of adversity; title: Life is not a spectator sport; title: One of the greatest risks is to be honest with ourselves; title: At the heart of anger is sadness; title: The quest for courage is a journey within.