"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me."

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Source : FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 09, 2012

Erica Jong

#Fear Quotes #Fearful Quotes

“Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.”
“Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.”
“As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself”
“There is no either / or between being competitive and collaborative. You have to be both and decide which in each situation.”
“I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen”, p.3, Elizabeth von Arnim
“Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.”
“Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.”

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