If you let fear shape the questions you’re willing to ask, you’ll have safe, surface-level answers that keep you doing what you’ve always done. You don’t have to wait for permission—from the world, from people who don’t even know you, to face reality. Ask yourself questions now that produce change. Questions that inspire and motivate you. The ones that strip away all the pretenses. Questions like these.
“Perhaps I am stronger than I think?”
Thomas Merton
“I want you to sing like you’re singing to the God inside you. Can you do that?”
Terry Britten, Producer of Tina Turner’s Private Dancer album
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Since, anyway, it will end one day, why not try it — life — one more time?”
James Baldwin
“How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?”
Jerry Colonna
“Look at me now. Who’s the one who hasn’t been honest?”
Felicia Montealegre, Maestro
“What’s the one thing I can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
Gary Keller
“If you can’t stick up for yourself, who else is going to?”
Garth Brooks, Documentary
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains?”
Walt Whitman
“What is it to think? To think is to question everything.”
Albert Camus
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