"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.“

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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."

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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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