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You speak of being afraid. Yet fear is something you generate in yourself, from your mind's lack of control; and you will learn to look at it and discover for yourself when you choose to be afraid. The first thing you must do is acknowledge that the fear is yours, and you can bid it come and go at will. Begin with this; whenever you feel fear that prevents choice say to yourself: 'What has made me feel fear? Why have I chosen to feel this fear preventing my choice, instead of feeling the freedom to choose?' Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you. ...[Y]ou have chosen to do nothing, so that none of the things you fear will come upon you; so your choices are not made by you but by your fear. ... I cannot promise to free you of your fear, only that a time will come when you are the master, and fear will not paralyze you. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#fear-of-failure #freedom

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay. ↗

— Esther Williams

#i #marriage #offered #pay #price

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#i #me #offended #somebody #too

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#bonding #experience #family #go #i

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#being #being the best #best #dedicated #field

I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any! ↗

— Olivia Williams

#anglo-saxon #any #artists #because #bit

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it. ↗

— Cale Yarborough

#completely #crowded #down #i #just

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#break #conventions #isolation #necessary #nice

My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle. ↗

— Paula Yates

#always #ankle #end #end of the world #films

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#end #friends #got #i #little