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Timid. Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

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“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”

Thomas Jefferson

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Claudia Lady Bird Johnson

“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Wanted to share some inspirational quotes with you.  Today seemed like a good time to do this. There are an estimated 100,000 words in the English language that are feelings related. Some emotions are pleasant, and some are unpleasant, but all feelings can provide useful information. If any of these quotes strike a chord with you, please share them.

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“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations – 1841-1844

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Wanted to share some inspirational quotes with you.  Today seemed like a good time to do this. If any of these quotes strike a chord with you, please share them.

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Bashful

“I’m a bashful individual, though I can’t get anyone to believe it…”

― Louisa May Alcott

“Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?”

― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

“A certain shame or bashfulness attached itself to whatever one deeply and privately enjoyed.”

― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Wanted to share some inspirational quotes with you.  Today seemed like a good time to do this. If any of these quotes strike a chord with you, please share them.