You don’t know fear until it’s 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you’re not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
Fear is the mother of morality.
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
Embrace the fear and go for it. That’s what I do. I don’t run from it – I embrace the fear.
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
That’s part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
To be held back by fear is to miss out on challenging yourself in different ways.
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
I greatly fear some of America’s greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
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.
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
I’m generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I’ve learned to manage the fear and pain.
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn’t want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.
Fear created the first gods in the world.
The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
I didn’t fear failure. I expected failure.
We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
