To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

—Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an English mathematician and philosopher. A founder of analytic philosophy, he was a leading philosopher of the 20th century who produced pioneering work in logic, set theory, and philosophy of language. Russell popularised philosophy to...

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

—Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

—François Rabelais

When I turn away from nature—human, animal, earthly or cosmic—when I turn away, that is, from intimate livingness, it means, simply and always, that I am afraid.

—Sanfor Goodman

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Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

—Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl

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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

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