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We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

By Elizabeth Gilbert
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Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author and journalist, most commonly recognized for her 2006 memoir, “Eat Pray Love.” She was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and is on Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders.

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Harriet Lerner
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions.

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Harriet Lerner
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego’s will to prevail.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThere is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

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FindCenter Quotes ImagePeople fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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FindCenter Quotes ImageNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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