Variant: Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Source: The House of the Spirits
“The discovery of freedom, for instance, means little if we are not empowered to act, to be free for something, not just from something. As fear falls away, we are less afraid of power's Siamese twin, responsibility.”
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power
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Variant: We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.
Source: Lord of Shadows
“Be free. Don't just make freedom something you have, make it something you do … something you ARE!”
Steve Maraboli
(1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 156
Context: The best way to celebrate your freedom is to LIVE it! Be you. Be free. Don't just make freedom something you have, make it something you do... something you ARE!
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Gregor Strasser
(1892–1934) German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Psrty
"Germany from Defeat to Conquest, 1913-1933", Władysław Wszebór Kulski - History - (1945)
Norman Mailer
(1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Kittredge Gardiner, in Harlot's Ghost : A Novel (1991)
Mark Manson
(1984) American writer and blogger
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 6, “You’re Wrong About Everything (But So Am I)” (p. 117)