We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Thich Nhat HanhI’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel WashingtonKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl JungPuritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. MenckenA woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham LincolnTimidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘
Maya AngelouWe must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
Alice WalkerIt is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurTell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo CoelhoPoverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. RowlingNixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.
Hunter S. ThompsonHe who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDarkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand RussellFear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch SpinozaCowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius CaesarNever let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe RuthEverything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen KellerHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond TutuI say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William ShakespeareWhere fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIt was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
Albert EinsteinThe more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Eckhart TolleLet the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Julius CaesarThe greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. MaxwellI’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.
Dave GrohlWhen even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. TrumanTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand RussellLove is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
Ariana GrandeI just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
Lady GagaThe course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. BushMen walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
Brene BrownEverywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
George W. BushFear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale CarnegieYou must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.
Napoleon BonaparteFear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
AristotleThere are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.
Joyce MeyerFrom my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.
Pope FrancisWe must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
AristotleFear clogs; faith liberates.
Elbert HubbardMen are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon BonaparteThe only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George EliotI have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.
AuroraCensorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.
Charles BukowskiThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.
Margaret AtwoodThe thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Charles BukowskiI’m terrified of losing my voice.
Christopher HitchensMen despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise PascalFear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.
Wayne DyerWe are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
John F. KennedyBad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.
Anthony BourdainFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon BonaparteNeither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand RussellFear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin DisraeliFear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Eckhart TolleI don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.
Tom Brady