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" Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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" Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. "

" The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination. "

" I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it. "

Jane Welsh Carlyle

" We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. "

" It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. "

" I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. "

Mariska Hargitay

" Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found. "

" Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking. "

" I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. "

" You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later. "

Laura Schlessinger

" There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love. "

" I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. "

" I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless. "

" Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope. "

" There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. "

" What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Apology is only egotism wrong side out. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world. "

Sebastian Thrun

" Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television. "

" I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning. "

" Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. "

W. Clement Stone

" I delight in what I fear. "

Shirley Jackson

" Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.' "

Stephen Hawking

" There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. "

" If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. "

Katharine Butler Hathaway