Perhaps some of these quotes can provide support and perspective, should you be experiencing various versions of fear at these times.

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott

“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”
Babe Ruth

“No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Edmund Burke

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
 Rosa Parks

“There are times when fear is good.  It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.”
Aeschylus

“The best way out is always through.”
Robert Frost

“My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.”
Shania Twain

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
Plato

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
Pema Chödrön

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Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD, author of nine Enneagram books, is a speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach. She provides certification programs and training tools for business professionals around the world who want to bring the Enneagram into organizations with high-impact business applications. TheEnneagramInBusiness.com | ginger@theenneagraminbusiness.com

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Even if anger, especially deep anger, is uncomfortable, it is very human and also an energy to be met and catalyzed.

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
Maya Angelou

When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
 Mark Twain

“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
 Malcolm X

 “Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.”
Aristotle

“A (wo)man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
Carl Jung

“Experiencing … anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono

“You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger – all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.”
Common

“I’m always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.”
Thandie Newton

“Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. (S)he’s not right in the brain.”
Dalai Lama

About Ginger

Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD, author of nine Enneagram books, is a speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach. She provides certification programs and training tools for business professionals around the world who want to bring the Enneagram into organizations with high-impact business applications. TheEnneagramInBusiness.com | ginger@theenneagraminbusiness.com

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As we navigate turbulent waters, grief is one of the human emotions that runs deep. These quotes may be of help.

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
CS Lewis

“We get no choice. If we love, we grieve.”
Thomas Lynch

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”
Rumi

“You never know how strong you are until being strong  is the only option.”
Bob Marley

“Everyone can master grief except (s)he who has it.”
Shakespeare

“Don’t run away from grief. Look for the remedy inside the pain because the rose came from the thorn and the ruby came from a stone.”
Rumi

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Viktor Frankl

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
Queen Elizabeth II

“Grief changes shape, but it never leaves.”
Keanu Reeves

About Ginger

Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD, author of nine Enneagram books, is a speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach. She provides certification programs and training tools for business professionals around the world who want to bring the Enneagram into organizations with high-impact business applications. TheEnneagramInBusiness.com | ginger@theenneagraminbusiness.com

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The times are tumultuous, uncertain, difficult and yet we must navigate through them. I selected these quotes that helped me gain a little perspective, laugh a little, and settle into my chair a bit more! Perhaps this will support you, if even for a brief minute.

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
Dolly Parton

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford

“By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness.”
Pablo Neruda

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
Maya Angelou

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Aristotle

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
Anne Lamott

“Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.”
Dalai Lama

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous times would have laid dormant.”
Horace

About Ginger

Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD, author of nine Enneagram books, is a speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach. She provides certification programs and training tools for business professionals around the world who want to bring the Enneagram into organizations with high-impact business applications. TheEnneagramInBusiness.com | ginger@theenneagraminbusiness.com

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