to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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"Only the united beat of sex and the heart can create ecstasy."

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"He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt."

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"Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you."

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Awareness

"When you possess light within, you see it externally."

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"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

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"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

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"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

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