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18/04/2020

13 quotes on managing our inner fears:-

1) Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less. Marie Curie

2) Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers. May Sarton

3) Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. Dorothy Thompson

4) He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. Aristotle

5) Your mind is small, but your heart is big. Your mind is afraid but your heart is full of love. Maxime Lagacé

6) Courage is knowing what not to fear. Plato

7) Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind – compassion opens it. Dalai Lama

8) Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it. Robin Sharma

9) The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Swami Vivekananda

10) Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chödrön

11) If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein

12) Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain

13) He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bonus: #1

“There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe."

- Lao Tzu

Bonus #2

"Develop so much love and empathy that when fear knocks in your mind, it fly out like a most beautiful butterfly, and you love it equally."

-Unknown

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His teachings about philosophy as a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline is still helping leaders, professionals in navigating the maze of life.

Here are some life changing quotes from Epictetus that can be useful in the current times.

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