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" I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem. "

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" It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. "

" I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy. "

" When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. "

" I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me. "

" Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way. "

" Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important one is, push through the fear. "

" How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. "

Florence Nightingale

" If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of. "

" If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. "

Sharon Salzberg

" I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it. "

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

" March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. "

" When you're fearful, you stumble. "

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" Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all. "

" There's no fear when you're having fun. "

" There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship. "

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" Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear. "

" I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. "

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" Those who own much have much to fear. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. "

" I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway. "