What you are afraid of is ...

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.
What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.
 Spencer Johnson

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.
 Spencer Johnson
I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
 Spencer Johnson
What would you do if you weren't afraid?
 Spencer Johnson
The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.
 Spencer Johnson
If you do not change, you can become extinct !
 Spencer Johnson