Fear Quotes - Page 61

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

We grow fearless by walking into our fears.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

When you fear God you fear nothing else!

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.