Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
› Benedict Spinoza
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
› Mark Twain
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
› Paulo Coelho
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
› Francis Quarles
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
› Rochefoucauld
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
› Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
› John D. Rockefeller
