The understanding of fear cures fear.
ROBERT ANTHONY, Beyond Positive Thinking
Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Guilty Pleasures
A man that is afraid is never a man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul,
- Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
EDWIN LEIBFREED, "Caelestis"
- The valiant standeth as a rock, and the billows break upon him;
- The timorous is a skiff unmoored, tossed and mocked at by a ripple:
- The valiant holdeth fast to good, till evil wrench it from him;
- The timorous casteth it aside to meet the worst halfway.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Narcissus in Chains
Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire.
ROBERT ANTHONY, The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
ELBERT HUBBARD, The American Bible
Fear secretes acids.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
Fear is a quicksand that slows and grips and strangles, leaving its victims unable to act, too timid to do what life requires.
BOB LONSBERRY, A Various Language
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.
NEALE DONALD WALSCH, Conversations with God
Fear is the brother of hate.
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Once bitten by a snake, one is afraid at the sight of a mere rope.
Fear flies through fancy's door.
Not to fear where there is occasion, is as great a weakness as to fear unduly, without reason.... Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Guilty Pleasures
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, You Learn by Living
Fear is prophetical of evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
ANNE RICE, Memnoch the Devil
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
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