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  • #1
    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #2
    Paulo Coelho
    “She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

  • #3
    C. JoyBell C.
    “A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturally brave. But what people don't know, is that I grew up with phobias and many fears. I was scared of everything. So, I write of courage not because I have not known fear, but I write of courage because I have walked with fear but I have made the choice not to fear it.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #4
    “It is in the darkest hour, when we are faced with our deepest most wrenching fears, that we are given the greatest strength. The choice is whether we succumb to the fear or rise with courage to face our truth and shine our brilliance as our sword of valor.”
    Monika Zands

  • #5
    Munia Khan
    “Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear”
    Munia Khan

  • #6
    Amaka Imani Nkosazana
    “As you travel along the roads in life, there is a certain kind of peace that comes with knowing you're on the right path. And when you are faced with adversity, it challenges you but makes you stronger. The road is not always an easy route. Nevertheless, you must not allow your fears to keep you from reaching the destination.”
    Amaka Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

  • #7
    Rasheed Ogunlaru
    “The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.”
    Rasheed Ogunlaru

  • #8
    Lisa See
    “The fear of death was a powerful aphrodisiac.”
    Lisa See, China Dolls

  • #9
    Jacqueline Ripstein
    “Fears hide within fears....”
    Jacqueline Ripstein

  • #10
    George R.R. Martin
    “Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #11
    George R.R. Martin
    “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #17
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only journey is the one within.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #18
    André Aciman
    “Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
    André Aciman

  • #19
    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

  • #20
    David  Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #21
    Tami Hoag
    “We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
    Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

  • #22
    Arthur Miller
    “Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
    Arthur Miller

  • #23
    Stephen Chbosky
    “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #24
    Kenzaburō Ōe
    “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
    Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

  • #25
    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    John Grisham, The Rainmaker

  • #26
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #27
    Johanna Lindsey
    “Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
    Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild

  • #28
    Keri Hulme
    “I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
    Keri Hulme

  • #29
    Henrik Ibsen
    “It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
    Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

  • #30
    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories



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