There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.