Sunday, December 6, 2015 – Revisiting Fear
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. ~ Sun Tzu
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ~ Thomas Paine
Fear is the mother of foresight. ~ Thomas Hardy
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ~ C. S. Lewis
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. ~ Marilyn Ferguson
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~ Charles Kennedy
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~ George S. Patton
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. ~ Tecumseh
I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. ~ Hedy Lamarr
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
Love is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. But there’s no need to be frightened, because that plane is still on the ground. ~ Jarod Kintz
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. ~ Marianne Williamson
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. ~ Cyril Connolly
My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me. ~ Franz Kafka
Never be afraid to sit a while and think. ~ Lorraine Hansberry
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. ~ Andre Gide
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. ~ William Hazlitt
I have a fear of being boring. ~ Christian Bale
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ~ Bertrand Russell
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They’re afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. ~ Fred Allen
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. ~ Harold Kushner
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ~ Samuel Butler
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. ~ John Cheever
Fear is excitement without breath. ~ Robert Heller
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear. ~ Umberto Eco
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. ~ Albert Camus
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. ~ Thomas Hobbes
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. ~ Thomas Jefferson
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. ~ Robert Frost
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~ William E. Gladstone
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. ~ Patrick Rothfuss
Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it. I try to send it back. But sometimes I’m too afraid to and have to eat it anyway. ~ Martin Amis
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. ~ Joseph Campbell
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