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• Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

  Vernon Howard

  Self, Secret, Trying

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• Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Fear, Live Your Life, Risk

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• Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

  Homer Hickam

  Optimistic, People, Mind

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• Walk firmly and with joy, without being afraid of stumbling. All your movements are being watched by your allies that will help you when necessary.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Joy

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• Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Hate, Needs, Shy

  "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

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• What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Men, Shame, Bottom

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• Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Believe, Creativity, Ideas

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• I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

  Florence Welch

  Creativity, Expression, Ideas

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• It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

  Julia Alvarez

  Secret, Sims, Policemen

  Julia Alvarez (2007). “Before We Were Free”, p.20, Laurel Leaf

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• Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Inspirational, Teacher, Fear

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• Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

  Kristin Hannah

  Strong, Parent, And Love

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• Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.

  Christa Wolf

  Writing, Mean, Self

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• Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fear, Liars, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Feb 10, 2015

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• You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don’t deserve it.

  Rae Earl

  People, Rest Of Your Life, Rejecting

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• I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.

  Jeff Blatnick

  Mean, Winning, Losing

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• I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

  Elle Fanning

  People, Introducing

  "Elle Fanning Spills Her Biggest Fashion Risk!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. December 29, 2011.

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• But as soon as I joined 'Six Feet Under', I felt like I was finally doing something again that the fans really loved, and I could stop being afraid of 'Clueless' fans!

  Jeremy Sisto

  Clueless, Feet, Fans

  "5 Questions with Suburgatory's Jeremy Sisto (Yes, We Talked Elton and Clueless!)" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

  Terry Goodkind

  Believe, Firsts, Steps

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.425, Head of Zeus

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• Happiness is not being afraid.

  Roy Keane

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.

  Matt Smith

  Kids, Doctors, Appreciate

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• I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Worst Enemy, Mind

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.157, Editions Didier Millet

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• I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

  Nick Rhodes

  Trust, Letting Go, Ideas

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• My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

  Isabel Allende

  Father, Alarms, Body

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• The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

  Bernie Mac

  Issues, Matter, Comedy

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• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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