Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.
– Frederick Buechner
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- When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen. – David Allen
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- Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid. – Ray Bradbury
- We don’t have to be afraid of stepping out. We don’t have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God. – Jennifer L Lane
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