Great fear is concealed under daring. —Lucan More about this quote Tags: fear courage daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. —Peter Cameron in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You More about this quote Tags: life fear coincidence serendipity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: love life fear pain death generosity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you. —Elmer Davis More about this quote Tags: fear Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear. —Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche More about this quote Tags: fear potential knowledge depression fearlessness courage transcending Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than just observes. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve. —Dorothe Sölle More about this quote Tags: hunger fear religion starving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is what the world honors: wealth, eminence, long life, a good name. This is what the world finds happiness in: a life of ease, rich food, fine clothes, beautiful sights, sweet sounds. People who can't get these things fret a great deal and are afraid, wear themselves out rushing around on business, spend night and day scheming and scrutinizing. Man lives his life in company with worry, and if he lives a long time, then he has spent that much time worrying. This is a callous way to treat the body. —Chuang Tzu More about this quote Tags: life fear ease clothes happiness wealth worry business honor food Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough. —M.C. Escher More about this quote Tags: fear dreams drugs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: fear kindness schizophrenia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Tags: fear angels devils flight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Marriage is a perilous and fearful effort, it seems to me. . . . It creates pain that it is the only cure for. It is the only comfort for its hardships. . . . Though we had our troubles, we had them in a true perspective. The universe, as we could see any night, is unimaginably large, and mostly empty, and mostly dark. We knew we needed to be together more than we needed to be apart. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Tags: fear perspective pain marriage comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is not the greatest fear. Neither is loss. Living is. —Joel Peckham More about this quote Tags: fear living death loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: reality fear humor dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. —Stewart I. Udall More about this quote Tags: fear power greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go. —Shauna Niequist in Bittersweet More about this quote Tags: life fear friendship relationships caution leaving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email