"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."

Fear, Being, Dying

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"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."

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"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self - absorption and self - sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed."

Brennan Manning, American Author

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"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher

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"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."

Ron Chernow, American Author

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"Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention."

Tamora Pierce, American Author

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"The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"One sure way to kill a dream, is to suffocate it with worry."

TemitOpe Ibrahim, Nigerian Poet

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"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."

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"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

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