Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.
—Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Those whom we support hold us up in life.
—Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
—Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear.
—John F. Kennedy
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
—George Sewell
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
—George Carlin
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
—Francis Quarles
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
—Frances Moore Lappe
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