"I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy."
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"Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry."
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"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."
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"Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!"
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"I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us."
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"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."
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"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
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"That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it."
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"Dread of night. Dread of not-night."
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"The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement."
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"Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory"
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"He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them."
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"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead."
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"Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit."
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"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."
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"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
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"A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either."
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"If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear."
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"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."
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"Every day do something that frightens you."
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