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" Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. "

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" Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. "

" Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. "

" While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. "

" Do what you fear and fear disappears. "

David Joseph Schwartz

" We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. "

" Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. "

" No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. "

" So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes. "

" Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. "

" The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness. "

Harry Dean Stanton

" People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "

" No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. "

" Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. "

" 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. "

" Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. "

" Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it. "

" Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. "

" I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator. "

" Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives. "

" Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. "

Abdullah II of Jordan

" The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. "

Emile M. Cioran

" I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down. "

" The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. "

" Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. "

" Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them. "

Believe In Yourself

" The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. "

Lou Henry Hoover