"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."
-Peter McWilliams
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"Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.“
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"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do."
-Peter McWilliams
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"In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts."
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"I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now."
-Peter McWilliams
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"I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now."
-Peter McWilliams
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"To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway."
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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."
-Simone de Beauvoir
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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."
-Graham Greene
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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