"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."

Johnson, Lady Bird on fear
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"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on action
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on action
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"Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be."

Byrhhe, Anne on action
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"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be."

Dryden, John on anxiety
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

Kierkegaard, Søren on anxiety
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"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

Seneca on anxiety
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"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

Asimov, Isaac on change
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

Marx, Groucho on choice
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"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on genius
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"A distracted existence leads us to no goal."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on goals
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"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on importance
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"There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on imagination   

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on laughter
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind
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"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on art
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"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on proverbs   

"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on quotations
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on secrets
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"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self-esteem
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"Everything comes if a man will only wait."

Disraeli, Benjamin on cycles   

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on youth   

"You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully."

Robbins, Anthony on choice
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"Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before."

West, Mae on choice
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"When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have."

Wister, Owen on choice   

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Amusement to an observing mind is study."

Disraeli, Benjamin on amusement
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"Justice is truth in action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on justice
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"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

Disraeli, Benjamin on law and lawyers   

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

Disraeli, Benjamin on love
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"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."

Disraeli, Benjamin on love
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"It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being."

Disraeli, Benjamin on marriage
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"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth   

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