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Once bitten by a snake, you are even frightened by a rope that resembles a snake.
“A remote stick doesn’t kill a snake.”
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“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
A.S. Roche
http://www.marinal-anon.org/pages/welcome/quotes-and-sayings.php
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one’s suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
― Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
( Maddy and Jim heading to the Illawarra to buy a new car. )
Susan Jeffers
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Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a centre of fear.
He who digs a pit for others must invariably fall into it.
http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/proverbs.html
You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above.”
~ Fransesca Marciano, “Rules of the Wild”
http://www.glimpsesofafrica.com/african-quotes–proverbs.html
The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows.”
Michelangelo
“When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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