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As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?
You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.
Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.
The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.
Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.
It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.
While we are focusing on fear, worry or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me.
Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.
There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.
I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.