“Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.”
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“Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.”
“A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.”
“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.”
“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”
“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.”
“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”
“Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.”
“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.”
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
“I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.”
“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
“My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.”
“When desire dies, fear is born.”
“Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.”
“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
“Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.”
“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”
“People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.”
“When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.”
“You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.”
“I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.”
“I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.”
“The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.”