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I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it

happens.

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Woody Allen
tags: death, fear, humor, life

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Do one thing every day that scares you.

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Eleanor Roosevelt
tags: attributed, fear, inspiration

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest

fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not
our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am
I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are
you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve
the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as
children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our
own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do
the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.

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Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A

Course in Miracles"
tags: akeelah, fear, inspirational

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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to

achieve: the fear of failure.

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Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: achievement, dreams, failure, fear

9746 likes

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we
are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open
to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and
acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our
glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully
open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and
all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted
vision of people who embrace life.

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John Lennon
tags: beatles, fear, life, love

8558 likes

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death

that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it
to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I
will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

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Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

7271 likes

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
tags: bravery, courage, fear

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Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

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Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: divergent, fear

5123 likes

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

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George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, fear

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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: fear

4383 likes

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a

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night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom

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Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you.

They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

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C. JoyBell C.
tags: belief, bravery, courage, fear, fears, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, strength
3967 likes

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the
suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes
in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a
second's encounter with God and with eternity.

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Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: fear, suffering

3436 likes

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be

frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at
every attempt to intimidate me.

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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: courage, dignity, elizabeth-bennet, empowerment, fear, independence, intimidation, selfdetermination, strength, stubbornness, women
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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating

preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in
forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they
stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who
have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like
Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their
roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they
struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil
themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to
represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than
a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked
death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous,
inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the
struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and
prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years,
the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy
knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that
high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most
indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever
knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach
learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the
ancient law of life.
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from

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eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with
me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest
play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was
made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I
know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of
me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for
nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out
of this trust I live.
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree
has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy,
life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within
you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your
path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day
lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there.
Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the
wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this
longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of
escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a
longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for
life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every
step is death, every grave is mother.
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own
childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful,
just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as
long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen
to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of
our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to
listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing
except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
Hermann Hesse, Bume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte
tags: eternity, fear, forests, history, holiness, home, life, longing, poet, roots, self-discovery, spirituality,
strength, trees, trust
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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Plato
tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

3018 likes

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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Salvador Dal
tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success

2948 likes

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no

power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are
free.

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Jim Morrison
tags: bravery, fear, freedom

2882 likes

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

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Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: bravery, courage, fear

2850 likes

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk
to your heart.

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Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: fear

2423 likes

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over

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it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who
conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
tags: bravery, courage, fear

2355 likes

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to

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obtain what they desire.

Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
tags: desire, fear, human-nature

2271 likes

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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Sren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically

Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life

2265 likes

I have accepted fear as part of life specifically the fear of

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change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart

that says: turn back....
Erica Jong
tags: change, courage, fear, life

2257 likes

I dont trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care
about someone, the more sure I am theyre going to get tired of
me and take off.

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Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

tags: fear, friendship, tired, trust

2255 likes

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They
teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains
is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own
answers.

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Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fantasy, fear, kvothe, man-s, name, patrick-rothfuss, wind, wise

2128 likes

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: fear, grief, sorrow

2128 likes

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people

invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught
out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they
didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart,
didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

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Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

tags: fear, heart, love, regret

2084 likes

Do not be afraid; our fate

Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

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Dante Alighieri, Inferno

tags: faith, fate, fear

2047 likes

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.

Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,
how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or
convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot,
which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so
you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light
of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless
darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open
yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the
opponent who defeated you.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
tags: fear, philosophy

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