"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears."

Benson, Arthur Christopher on fear
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"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on fear
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"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on fear   

"First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down."

Bradbury, Ray on fear
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"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

Bradley, Francis H. on fear
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"Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression."

Home, Henry on solitude
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"A man by himself is in bad company."

Hoffer, Eric on solitude   

"With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on solitude   

"By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind."

Herbert, George on solitude
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"We walk alone in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on solitude
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"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."

Connolly, Cyril on solitude   

"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

Camus, Albert on solitude   

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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"Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad."

Johnson, Samuel on solitude
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"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle."

Johnson, Samuel on solitude
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"In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages."

Mathews, William on solitude
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"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

Mann, Thomas on solitude
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"To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self."

Mabie, Hamilton on solitude
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"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on solitude
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"Solitude: a sweet absence of looks."

Kundera, Milan on solitude
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"There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped."

Kottler, Jeffrey on solitude
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"Solitude is un-American."

Jong, Erica on solitude   

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on books - reading
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"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on belief
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on assertiveness
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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on planning
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"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"You must do the thing that you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on impossibility
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"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on happiness
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on effort
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on dream
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"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

King Jr. Martin Luther on death
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on criticism
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on curiosity
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"Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!"

Unknown, Source on love
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