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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...

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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...

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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courag...

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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...

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For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought fa...

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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...

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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a cl...

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Write down everything you fear in life.Burn it.Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration,...

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It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership o...

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I never stop myself from doing something because I’m afraid of what people might think.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they wo...

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Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pa...

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Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I to...

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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts...

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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skie...

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dis...

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The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to hate...

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On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

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AberjhaniSplendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s b...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public ...

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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

My heart's a dance of fear.

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AeschylusEumenides

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying "This, too, shall pass," For a tim...

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Ahdaf SoueifThe Map of Love

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my a...

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We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value t...

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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

This is the century of fear.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far fro...

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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot i...

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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone ...

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Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly ...

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A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk...

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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason ...

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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who...

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The truth is that you are afraid.''Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I...

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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

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Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-...

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Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...

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Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be...

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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells ...

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I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're l...

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Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase ...

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There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatr...

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Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Drop the fear. What you fear most, can be a repeated theme in your life.

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by cou...

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Renunciation is dropping the fear, anger, respect, and disrespect but continuously radiating uncondi...

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

That particular fear has the texture you can neither forget nor describe. It is like the fear of the...

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We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country ...

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He hath never failed thee yet.Never will His love forget.O fret not thyself nor letThy heart be trou...

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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...

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We ought to be much more fearful of what we don’t know. We should really be fearful of an unconsciou...

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Anaïs NinA Woman Speaks: The Lectures

I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lo...

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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was t...

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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the repub...

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I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one ...

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...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful tha...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome ...

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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but ...

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All my contemporaries—hundred-and-fivers or convicts—will tell you how we livedin barely sentient fe...

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Anna AkhmatovaSobranie Sochinenii V Shesti Tomakh

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us o...

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To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpil...

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But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)

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Anne LamottCrooked Little Heart

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful...

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Anne LamottGrace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but ...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls...

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

We're frightened of what makes us different.

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the ...

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Anne RiceBlood And Gold

I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I...

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