Quotes about Fear and courage (285 quotes)

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. Votes: 6

Grace Paley

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Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom. Votes: 4

Judith Orloff

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...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block) Votes: 4

Ralph Keyes

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Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once. Votes: 4

Anais Nin

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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending. Votes: 4

Plotinus

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I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route. Votes: 3

Lilly Singh

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. Votes: 2

Aristotle

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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage. Votes: 2

Vash Young

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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Votes: 2

Harry S Truman

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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. Votes: 2

David Ben-Gurion

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Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads. Votes: 2

Kevin Patterson

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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Votes: 2

Dale Carnegie

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. Votes: 2

David Ben-Gurion

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Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears. Votes: 2

Susana Martinez

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The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. Votes: 2

Malala Yousafzai

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You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy. Votes: 2

Portia de Rossi

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Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you. Votes: 2

Rudy Giuliani

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I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. Votes: 2

Susana Martinez

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Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds. Votes: 2

Debbie Ford

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We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others and stand in the center of our power. Translation is a theme. Fear and courage are a theme. Votes: 2

Terry Tempest Williams

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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Votes: 2

Natalie Dormer

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The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. Votes: 2

Terri Clark

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Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight. Votes: 2

John Cusack

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The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear. Votes: 2

Jules Verne

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Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success. Votes: 2

Thomas J. Stanley

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With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it. Votes: 2

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Courage is fear that prays. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Courage is ignoring your fear. Votes: 0

Tamara Ecclestone

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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Fear is essential for courage. Votes: 0

John F. Murray

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Courage is fear on its knees. Votes: 0

Beverly Lewis

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Courage leads starward, fear toward death. Votes: 0

Seneca the Elder

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Fear is religion, courage is science. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Fear's contagious, but so is courage. Votes: 0

Betty Williams

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War is fear cloaked in courage. Votes: 0

William Westmoreland

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Without fear there cannot be courage. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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Courage is knowing what to fear. Votes: 0

Plato

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What is fear but courage's shadow? Votes: 0

Jacqueline Carey

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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. Votes: 0

Charles Kennedy

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Courage is acting in spite of fear. Votes: 0

Howard W. Hunter

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Courage is not the absence of fear Votes: 0

Richard Stengel

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Courage and fear were one thing too. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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Courage is one step ahead of fear. Votes: 0

Coleman Young

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Votes: 0

James F. Bell, III

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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Fear is the root of all courage Votes: 0

Vivian Stanshall

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Courage is knowing what not to fear. Votes: 0

Plato

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. Votes: 0

Edward Albert

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Courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding. Votes: 0

Eddie Albert

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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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Bold courage is paralyzing fear after humble prayer. Votes: 0

Kenneth E. Nowell

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Where ever fear exists, courage can be found. Votes: 0

Robert M. Hensel

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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. Votes: 0

George S. Patton

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Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Votes: 0

Dorothy Bernard

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Courage can be just as infectious as fear. Votes: 0

Alice Miller

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Courage... is fear holding on just a bit longer. Votes: 0

Kathryn Lasky

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Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Votes: 0

Oprah Winfrey

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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear. Votes: 0

Seneca the Elder

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courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers! Votes: 0

Zane

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Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. Votes: 0

Horace Smith

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Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. Votes: 0

John McCain

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Courage is acting in faith despite your feelings of fear. Votes: 0

Joel Balin

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage. Votes: 0

Candice Swanepoel

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Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear. Votes: 0

David Steindl-Rast

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Courage comes from knowing that fear is a false perception. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. Votes: 0

Dale Carnegie

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You have to have fear in order to have courage. Votes: 0

Ronda Rousey

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You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear. Votes: 0

Chris Prentiss

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Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Courage is the willingness to act in spite of fear. Votes: 0

Michael Hyatt

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Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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In the absence of fear, there can be no courage. Votes: 0

Len Smith

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Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear. Votes: 0

Dennis Rainey

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fight with fear- can possible by passing through it with courage. Votes: 0

lity munshi

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Life is a fairytale of courage, fear, failure, persistence and triumph. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born, Votes: 0

Malala Yousafzai

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The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men. Votes: 0

Lynn G. Robbins

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Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it. Votes: 0

Randall "Tex" Cobb

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If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage? Votes: 0

Veronica Rossi

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Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so. Votes: 0

Terry Brooks

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Fear is the strongest prison and courage is the only way out! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader. Votes: 0

John C. Maxwell

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We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear. Votes: 0

Sandra Cisneros

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that Votes: 0

James Neil Hollingworth

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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. Votes: 0

Philip Sidney

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. Votes: 0

Lao Tzu

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Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage. Votes: 0

Joan D. Chittister

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation. Votes: 0

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. Votes: 0

Laozi

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The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity. Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

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Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear. Votes: 0

Plato

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A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear Votes: 0

David Gemmell

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Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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Courage is meant to be strong, while fear is meant to be broken Votes: 0

Zoe Rosenberg

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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self. Votes: 0

Erwin McManus

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We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done. Votes: 0

Dan B. Allender

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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important Votes: 0

Stephen R. Covey

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Surround yourself with like-minded, strong people, use your voices and choose courage over fear. Votes: 0

Lilly Singh

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Courage is the facing of a challenge with a healthy fear, not being fearless. Votes: 0

Les Stroud

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Courage is not the lack of fear, it is acting in spite of it Votes: 0

R.Knight

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Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next. Votes: 0

Daisaku Ikeda

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You have the courage and will to overcome your fear and do what's required. Votes: 0

Henry H. Neff

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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face. Votes: 0

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear. Votes: 0

James Neil Hollingworth

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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier. Votes: 0

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway. Votes: 0

Joyce Meyer

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...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. Votes: 0

Amelia Earhart

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Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you. Votes: 0

Bethany Hamilton

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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you. Votes: 0

B.K.S. Iyengar

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Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear. Votes: 0

Mark Hart

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Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it. Votes: 0

Walter Inglis Anderson

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The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage. Votes: 0

Mardy Grothe

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person. Votes: 0

Sara Blakely

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Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore Votes: 0

Bob Goff

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Courage is not the absence of fear " it s inspiring others to move beyond it. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach. Votes: 0

Ann Aguirre

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The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear. Votes: 0

Oriah Dreamer

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Courage is not the absence of fear, it's to feel the fear and face it anyway. Votes: 0

Jeanette Coron

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There will always be fear; do it anyway. Let your courage inspire the world around you. Votes: 0

Steve Maraboli

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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Votes: 0

TJ Hoisington

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To fear is to lack courage; and to lack courage is to forsake your true abilities. Votes: 0

Wayne Chirisa

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Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear. Votes: 0

M. Scott Peck

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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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Fear is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their courage. Votes: 0

Edmond Mbiaka

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With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book. Votes: 0

Ban Ki-moon

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Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid. Votes: 0

Ken McGrath

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Let your passion and courage swell in you until you can no longer be contained by fear. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear. Votes: 0

J.H. Lee

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It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear. Votes: 0

Gitty Daneshvari

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Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear. Votes: 0

James L. Farmer, Jr.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement thatsomething else is more important than fear. Votes: 0

Ambrose Redmoon

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Fear... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction Votes: 0

Heinrich Harrer

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Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain. Votes: 0

Earl A Grollman

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Fear of failure is deceptive.Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.Courage is inceptive.It's where success starts. Votes: 0

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear. Votes: 0

Anthony Hopkins

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. Votes: 0

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Courage promotes leaders; fear demotes them. Most people who have difficulties climbing up success ladders are fans of fear. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage. Votes: 0

Jim Bishop

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Votes: 0

Ambrose Redmoon

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If we lived in a world with no fear, then you would never discover the courage you have within. Votes: 0

Jennifer O'Neill

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It's normal that there be fear, in every man, the important thing is that it be accompanied by courage Votes: 0

Paolo Borsellino

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In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, he asks us to be strong and take courage. Votes: 0

Bruce Wilkinson

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Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it. Votes: 0

Scott Turow

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Stress is a thought, a perception of fear, it will melt away if welet our thoughts change with courage. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous. Votes: 0

Laurence Overmire

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Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. Votes: 0

Dan Millman

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To fear is to lack courage; and to lack courage is to forsake your true abilities.By: Wayne Chirisa Votes: 0

Wayne Chirisa

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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.] Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein

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Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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Your dreams will be your reality if you don't fear them and have enough courage to act on them. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is a determination that there is something more important than fear. Votes: 0

David Paul Kirkpatrick

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The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage. Votes: 0

Jane Fonda

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Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety. Votes: 0

Tommy Franks

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The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness. Votes: 0

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. Votes: 0

Joseph Campbell

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Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.... Votes: 0

Peter McWilliams

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The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear. Votes: 0

Tess Gerritsen

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I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk. Votes: 0

John Assaraf

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Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid. Votes: 0

Joanna Brooks

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Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage. Votes: 0

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other. Votes: 0

Louise Penny

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Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear. Votes: 0

Laini Taylor

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Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE. Votes: 0

Gerry Lindgren

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Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of. Votes: 0

Bill Crawford

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We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears. Votes: 0

John McCain

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Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own. Votes: 0

Michelle Cohen Corasanti

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When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life. Votes: 0

Ali Vincent

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Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave. Votes: 0

Martha Beck

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Courage is not the absence of fear; only a fool has no fear. Courage is seeing the fear and continuing to proceed. Votes: 0

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway. Votes: 0

Colleen Houck

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you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear. Votes: 0

Maia Wojciechowska

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Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions. Votes: 0

Aung San Suu Kyi

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The best way to battle fear is with courage. You have to look at the opposite of fear: Fear is scared of courage. Votes: 0

Lilly Singh

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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. Votes: 0

Henri Frederic Amiel

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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind. Votes: 0

Aung San Suu Kyi

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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Votes: 0

Harry S. Truman

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True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things Votes: 0

Alex & Brett Harris

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Fear aint in the heart of me, i learned just do it, you get courage from your fears right after you go through it. Votes: 0

T.I.

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The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail. Votes: 0

Romeo LeBlanc

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Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear. Votes: 0

Roy Bennett

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Fear and doubt do not kill courage and faith; they birth them. You cannot have courage without fear. You cannot have faith without doubt. Votes: 0

Steve Maraboli

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The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. Votes: 0

Elizabeth McCracken

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Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear. Votes: 0

Robert Cazimero

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become. Votes: 0

Robert Fanney

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God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. Votes: 0

Margaret of Valois

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Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt. Votes: 0

Alice Hegan Rice

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In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. Votes: 0

Howard Thurman

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The notion of there being something greater than humanity can strike fear in the bravest of soldiers and cradle courage in the palm of a child's hand." Votes: 0

Katlyn Charlesworth

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Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor? Votes: 0

Brandon Mull

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The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more. Votes: 0

George MacDonald

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Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other. Votes: 0

Nhat Hanh

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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear. Votes: 0

William James

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Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith. Votes: 0

Irshad Manji

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To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage. Votes: 0

Brendon Burchard

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Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious. Votes: 0

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Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed." Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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Fear is contagious. Fortunately, so is courage. Learning to become fearless will touch everyone around you, and best of all, you'll find it's a gift that keeps on giving. Votes: 0

Michelle Aguilar

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But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear. Votes: 0

Tamera Alexander

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Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty. Votes: 0

BrenÃ© Brown

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feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless Votes: 0

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you. Votes: 0

Amit Ray

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Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability. Votes: 0

John Wooden

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There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country. Votes: 0

Barbara Boxer

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It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Votes: 0

Gillian Anderson

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It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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