Fear Quotes
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
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Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
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I was in school studying International Studies and Sociology. I was really into what was going on in school. I was affected by the ideas and engaged as a student, but not disciplined or motivated enough to do the work. That was a fear of mine for a while, that nothing was motivating.
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You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.
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There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.
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Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
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Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.
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Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
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The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no more room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear.
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Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
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I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
