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• “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” -- Bertrand Russell
  
  
• “Nothing is terrible except fear itself.” -- Francis Bacon
  
  
• “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” -- Charles Kingsley
  
  
• “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.” -- Thomas A. Edison
  
  
• “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” -- Helen Keller
  
  
• “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” -- Thoreau
  
  
• “No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.” -- Seneca
  
  
• “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” -- Salvador Dali
  
  
• “The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.” -- Confucius
  
  
• “One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.” -- Denis Waitley
  
  

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