"I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may."

Courage, Writing, Overcoming, Fear

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"I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may."

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"If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible."

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"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."

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"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Only by facing your demons can you stop them from having power over you."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."

Richie Norton, American Author

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"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."

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"If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible."

"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."

"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"

"Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination."

"Only by facing your demons can you stop them from having power over you."

"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."

"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."

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"Widow. The word consumes itself."

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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."

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"The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things."

"I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't seem to be summer any more."