Fear Quotes - Page 106

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

Anything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable.

Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.

When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

What an incredible drug fear is.

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.