From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.
The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.
Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
When we say that black lives matter, it’s not because others don’t: it’s simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don’t need religion.
I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you’ll only achieve small things.
It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
He doesn’t know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn’t know the meaning of most words.
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don’t know it’s possible because it’s not often in front of you.
Every journey starts with fear.
My only fear is the unknown.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
