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"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."
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"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth."
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"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful."
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"Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK."
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"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."
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"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."
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"Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'"
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"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception."
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"There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."
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"We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings."
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"Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail."
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"Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do."
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it."
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"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage."
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"Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them."
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"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."
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"I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal."
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"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."
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