Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

The future will be better tomorrow.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

It 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.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

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

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.