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"Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone."
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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."

"Fear makes you a stranger to yourself."

"The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake."
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"Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can."

"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."

"If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it."

"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life."

"Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems."

"Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld."

"No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth."

"The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are."

"I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light."

"Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look."
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