“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
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“A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.”
“Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”
“Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.”
“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”
“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”
“Fear is the passion of slaves.”
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”
“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”
“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”
“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”
“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.”
“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”
“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”
“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”