Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart. ― Paulo Coelho

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. – Martha Washington

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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ― Nelson Mandela

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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. ― George Bernard Shaw

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I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

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It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. ― George Saunders

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Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return. ― Leigh Bardugo

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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

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