Fear Quotes - Page 65

In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before.

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Say what you have to say, and then stop.

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.