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FEAR is "False Expectation Appearing Real". It creates dangers where there are none and holds you back from getting things done. ↗

— Rvm

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With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel, Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro: Her ruthless will has just deposed once fearful kings While trustless still, from low she lifts a conquered head; No cries of misery she hears, no tears she heeds, But steely hearted laughs at groans her deeds have wrung. Such is a game she plays, and so she tests her strength; Of mighty power she makes parade when one short hour Sees happiness from utter desolation grow. (A Consolation of Philosophy, Book II, translated by V.E. Watts) ↗

— Boethius - Queen Elizabeth I translation

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There's a reason why God limits our days." "Why?" "To make each one precious. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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Well then," said I, "if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss? ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won. ~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance ↗

— Jaq D. Hawkins

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But do not search for the Gods in vain when it is your own heart and mind that can find the way. ↗

— Vasileios Kalampakas

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In the end, we must all individually take collective responsibility for both the good and the bad that exist in this world. ↗

— Mac MacKenzie

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Alle tragischen Männer gewinnen ihre Größe durch etwas Krankhaftes in ihnen. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit. “Hallo, Rabbit,” said Pooh dreamily. “Did you make that song up?” “Well, I sort of made it up,” said Pooh. “It isn’t Brain,” he went on humbly, “because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes.” “Ah!” said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them. ↗

— A.A. Milne

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There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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