Fear Quotes
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]
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My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.
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You can make people do anything if they're afraid.
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Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.
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I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
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Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
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The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?
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I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
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In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
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It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.
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My biggest fear was the I'd be a one-time guy.
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Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.
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Many of our leaders have gone past the old-fashioned politics of the democratic era and entered into the politics of fear. People running for national office no longer emphasize their views about the economy or social change. The leading political question of our time has become: who can ease our nightmares?
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There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
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You don't take on anything unless there's fear.
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who could remember which cave had the gentle guy who gave her food is more likely to be our foremother than the cave woman who confused it with the cave that held the killer bear. The emotion of love and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories.
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Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.
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Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.
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The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit.
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"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
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There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
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Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
