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I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fe

I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change…. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. – Erica Jong

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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting Hiawatha and they groan. – Erica Jong

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Poetry
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Erica Jong
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. – Erica Jong

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Wisdom
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Erica Jong
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Fear
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Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. – Henry Miller

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Fear

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. – Lord Byron

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Fear

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose. – Wayne Rooney

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Fear

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. – Gerald Jampolsky

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Fear

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I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important. – Shay Mitchell

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alone

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. – Samuel Richardson

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Nature

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didnt fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldnt find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know. – Eric Clapton

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The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. – John Keegan

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funny