Quotes by category:Fear

In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

Marya Hornbacher

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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid... by Marya Mannes

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

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The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

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fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. by Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be... by Mahatma Gandhi

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity. by Mason Cooley

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

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Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

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Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

Matthew J. Kirby

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There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

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If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

Matthew Simpson

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary. by Mason Cooley

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

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Fear regulates. Appetite impels. by Mason Cooley

Fear regulates. Appetite impels.

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so... by Mason Cooley

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

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Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws. by Mason Cooley

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him.... As all our knowledge must take rise from the fear of God, so it must tend to it as its perfection and centre. Those know enough who know how to fear God, who are careful in every thing to please Him and fearful of offending Him in any thing; this is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge.

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