Fear Quotes
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Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.
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Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
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The fear of making a decision is the result of fearing to make a mistake - the truth is, the fear of mistakes has a greater impact on you than making the mistakes.
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Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.
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My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.
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One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.
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Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.
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Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.
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Anyone can see how if a feared tax hike doesn't happen, that's a positive factor. But even if tax hikes happen as feared, vast history tells me it doesn't have to have the big bad impact folks fear. And fear of a false factor is always bullish.
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The fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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My fear would have been that if I was out of town, my insurance would have been null and void.
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You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.
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There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
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We learn to beat fear by doing.
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Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
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There is no worse emotion than fear.
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Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
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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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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
