Quotes by Fear To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you. Byron Katie businessfearthinking Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have. Byron Katie generositylawfear That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts. Byron Katie fear We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened. Byron Katie fearmaymean A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one. Byron Katie fearteacherpeace We fear only what we haven’t understood. Byron Katie anxietyfearworry When you run in fear, it's square into the wall. Byron Katie wallfearrunning Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood. Byron Katie painfearinspirational Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis regretfearsympathy Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it. C. S. Lewis nicefearhouse When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. C. S. Lewis growing-uphealingfear When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. C. S. Lewis growing-upfearchildren There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us? C. S. Lewis fearmenpeople No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me. C. S. Lewis yawninggrieffear Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. C. S. Lewis gratitudegratefulfear You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended. C. S. Lewis painjourneyfear One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who could remember which cave had the gentle guy who gave her food is more likely to be our foremother than the cave woman who confused it with the cave that held the killer bear. The emotion of love (or something resembling it) and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories. Candace Pert confusedfearmemories A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage. Candice Swanepoel lack-of-knowledgeseekingfear People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. Carl Jung fearinspirationalpeople Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next. Carl Jung nextgrowthfear«1213141516171819202122»
