“When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.”
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5 quotes“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
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George R.R. Martin
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Laurell K. Hamilton
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Edmund Burke
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Don DeLillo
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Seneca
4 quotes“Where fear is happiness is not.”