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• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Halloween, Monsters

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• I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Education, Motivation, Children

  "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine". Book by Phillipe Mather, p. 46, 2013.

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• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2

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• Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Ignorance, Fundraising

  Saint Francis (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong, Ignatius C. Brady (1982). “Francis and Clare: The Complete Works”, p.35, Paulist Press

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Cancer, Recovery

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• Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

  John Welwood

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  1978 Address to the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, 9 Nov.

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• There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.

  Ted Dekker

  Love, Inspirational, Truth

  FaceBook post by Ted Dekker from Aug 04, 2015

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• Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

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• Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

  Maurice Freehill

  Children, Dark, Men

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• Fear always springs from ignorance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Spring, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Anxiety, Doubt, Lenses

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Smile, Great Men, No Fear

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Mistake

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• Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lonesome, Trekking, Dread

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 6

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• Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

  Wayne Dyer

  Death, Dying, Dimensions

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.57, Hay House, Inc

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• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

  Angeles Arrien

  Trust, Christian, Letting Go

  Angeles Arrien (2010). “The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

  Samuel Butler

  Halloween, Inspiration, Worry

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• People living deeply have no fear of death.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Motivational Sports, Entrepreneur

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.54, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

  Katherine Paterson

  Inspirational, Cancer, Swings

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

  Bette Midler

  Dance, Dream, Heart

  Song: The Rose, Album: The Rose, 1979

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