The truth is not so good a story.

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.