"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.“
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"No man was ever wise by chance."
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"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
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"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
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"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
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"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
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"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."
-Mary Schmich
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
-Marianne Williamson
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"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
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"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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