What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

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

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.