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    “Life can only be lived dangerously—there is no other way to live it. It is only through danger that life attains maturity, growth. One needs to be an adventurer, always ready to risk the known for the unknown. That’s what being a seeker is all about. But once one has tasted the joys of freedom and fearlessness, one never repents because then one knows what it means to live at the optimum. Then one knows what it means to burn your life’s torch from both ends together. And even a single moment of that intensity is more gratifying than a whole eternity of mediocre living.”

    Osho, Everyday Osho (Page 310)

      “One of the great mistakes in life is suffering for years because you didn’t want to feel foolish for five minutes.

      • You don’t want to apologize, so you let a relationship deteriorate.
      • You’re scared of the sting of rejection, so you don’t ask for what you want.
      • You fear people will say your idea is dumb, so you never start the business.

      Nobody likes feeling foolish, but the feeling fades quickly. The willingness to endure five minutes of discomfort turns out to be a meaningful dividing line in life.”

      James Clear

        “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead.”

        Bertrand Russell, via The Midnight Library (Page 36)

          “Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems. We can keep ourselves so busy, fill our lives with so many diversions, stuff our heads with so much knowledge, involve ourselves with so many people and cover so much ground that we never have time to probe the fearful and wonderful world within. More often than not we don’t want to know ourselves, don’t want to depend on ourselves, don’t want to know ourselves, don’t want to depend on ourselves, don’t want to live with ourselves. By middle life most of us are accomplished fugitives from ourselves.”

          John W. Gardner, Self-Renewal (Page 13)

            “When we deny fear, our problems follow us. In fact, they’re probably getting bigger, and bigger, and at some point something will force us to deal with them. When all else fails, pain does make us pay attention. If we don’t learn from the signal that alerts us to a problem, we’ll end up learning from the results of the problem itself, which is far less desirable. But if we face our fear—we stay, we deal with the fire, we have the tough conversation—we become stronger as a result.”

            Jay Shetty, Think Like A Monk (Page 62)

              “When you deal with fear and hardship, you realize that you’re capable of dealing with fear and hardship. This gives you a new perspective: the confidence that when bad things happen, you will find ways to handle them. With that increased objectivity, you become better able to differentiate what’s actually worth being afraid of and what’s not.”

              Jay Shetty, Think Like A Monk (Page 51)

                “All paralyzed people—psychologically paralyzed, spiritually paralyzed—live life in hell. And how do they create it? The secret is that they live in fear; they only do a certain thing when there is no fear, but then there is nothing left worth doing. All that is worth doing has certain fears around it.”

                Osho, Everyday Osho (Page 58)

                  “I’ve realized that for some reason, God placed the most beautiful things in life on the other side of our worst terrors. If we are not willing to stand in the face of the things that most deeply unnerve us, and then step across the invisible line into the land of dread, then we won’t get to experience the best that life has to offer.”

                  Will Smith, Will (Page 406)

                    “How we decide to respond to our fears, that is the person we become.”

                    Will Smith, Will (Page 14)

                      “Fear doesn’t control us by dominating our emotions. It controls us by quietly convincing us that our comfort is more important than happiness.”

                      Mark Manson

                        “One of the great gifts of sports is learning how to fail in public. People never go to the gym because they’re scared of looking stupid, never share their writing because they’re scared of judgment, never open their heart because they’re scared of rejection. Sports train you to face your fear.”

                        James Clear, Blog