I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown, and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, “Turn back, turn back; you’ll die if you venture too far.”

~Erica Jong
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Half an hour of meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

~Saint Francis de Sales
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Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.

~Victor Frankl
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Change is inevitable, positive growth is optional.

~unknown
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The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created–created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.

~John Schaar
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