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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.
I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn.
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.
This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.
As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.
Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.
The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.
Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.
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.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.