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  Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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• If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Confidence, Inspirational Sports

  Michael Jordan (2005). “Driven from Within”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

  Amy Purdy

  Inspirational, Dream, Believe

  "Living beyond limits". TED conference, www.ted.com. May 2011.

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• Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

  Donald Miller

  Fresh Start, Emotion, Boring

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.

  Joe Mahoney

  Inspirational, Hope, Children

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• Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.

  Steve Harvey

  Inspirational, Dream, Comedian

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2016

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• Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

  Kiran Desai

  Honesty, Writing, Mean

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• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Power, Atheism

  "The Short Reign of Pippin IV". Book by John Steinbeck, p. 102, 1957.

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• Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Courage, Mean

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• Fear is the parent of cruelty.

  James Anthony Froude

  Life, Parent, Cruelty

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.461, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Competition, Weakness

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• Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Heartbreak, Spiritual

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• We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

  Epictetus

  Poverty, Should, Exile

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• Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

  Marion Woodman

  Future, Healing, Past

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  Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Beauty

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• Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

  Pope Francis

  Relationship, Happiness, Happy

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Change, Hope, Attitude

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• What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

  Neil Postman

  Truth, Book, Reading

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.

  Steve Pavlina

  Stress, Exercise, Challenges

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Hope, Cancer, Philosophical

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.150, Commodius Vicus

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

  Tacitus

  Truth, Sincerity, Habit

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• This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings.

  Joanna Macy

  Nature, Anger, Dark

  Joanna Macy, Norbert Gahbler (2006). “Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World”, p.105, Parallax Press

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• If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear Of The Unknown, Worth Living, Ifs

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