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“It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Fear

“You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am ”
― Cooley, Inscriptions

“What you are is an expression of history.”
― Robert Penn Warren, World Enough and Time

“Be the person you needed when you were younger.”
― Ayesha Siddiqi

“The cage is open. You can walk out anytime you want. Why are you still in there?”
― Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly's Guide to Your Next Crisis

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“Harold sighs. “Jude,” he says, “there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare