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To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

— Katherine Mansfield

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield : A Biography (1953)

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun.

When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. You can't get it into shape; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

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