“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Source: The Collected Works
“The worst of all fears is the fear of living”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
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