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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• 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.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

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• The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

  Helen Keller

  Strong Women, Fear, Avoiding Pain

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Fear, Running Away, Suppressing

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

  Dawna Markova

  Goes On, Next, Fruit

  Dawna Markova (1996). “The Open Mind: Exploring the 6 Patterns of Natural Intelligence”, p.187, Conari Press

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• Live your life to the fullest.

  Shakira

  Life, Birthday, Beauty

  "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• The other side of every fear is a freedom.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Fear, Sides, Phobia

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• We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Love Yourself, Things In Life

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• What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

  Marilyn French

  Fear, Self, House

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• The real malady is fear of life, not of death

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Real, Malady

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 29, 2011

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• Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 3, sc.2.

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• I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.

  Albert Einstein

  Liars, Would Be, Speak

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, St. Martin's Press

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• I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

  David Blaine

  Believe, Fear Of Death, Greater

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Men, Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.54, Knopf

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• However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

  Graham Greene

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  "The Comedians". Book by Graham Greene. Part 1, Chapter 4, Section 1, 1966.

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• Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fall, Fighting, Life And Death

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• Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

  Edward Young

  Life, Inspire, Fear Of Death

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.103

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• There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Strong, Reading, Moving

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• Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

  William James

  Form, Great Things

  William James (1925). “The Philosophy of William James: Drawn from His Own Works”

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• Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Humanity

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• I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

  Alexander Lowen

  Fear, Hero, Faces

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