Fear Quotes - Page 24

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

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 (or something resembling it) and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.

I do not fear invisible worlds.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

Fear is excitement without the breath.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.