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" Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. "

Corrie Ten Boom

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" Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. "

" I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. "

" A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear. "

Allegra Versace

" Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. "

Bernard Beckett

" My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. "

" The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it. "

Guillermo del Toro

" I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. "

" There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. "

George S. Patton

" I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless. "

" By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. "

" The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. "

" You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear. "

" Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself. "

" The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. "

" Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. "

" The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. "

" I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing. "

" Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. "

" It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. "

" Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism. "

Randi Weingarten

" When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. "

" The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. "

Eduardo Galeano

" I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do. "

" Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. "

" I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me. "

" I will show you fear in a handful of dust. "

" Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. "

" Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck. "