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Quotes About Self

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you'll see in your arms is yourself.
~ Andre Dubus
You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.
~ Suzanne Weyn
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
~ Aldous Huxley
Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
~ Neal Shusterman
I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
~ Shakira
The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!
~ Franz Stampfl
There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
~ John Updike
When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.
~ Tara Brach
...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.
~ William Shakespeare
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Real guts are nothing more than developing your inner voice to the point where it is louder and stronger than the voice of your fear.
~ Georgette Mosbacher
Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
~ Maurice Sendak
Fear is the fear of one's self.
~ Wilhelm Stekel
The neutralizer to fear is self belief.
~ Unknown
I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
~ Matt Dillon
Fear is trusting in your own power.
~ Marianne Williamson
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
~ Sebastian Horsley
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
~ B. C. Forbes
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
~ Sylvia Plath
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.
~ Richard Ford
When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.
~ Frederick Lenz
Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
~ William Faulkner
There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-self], right?
~ Dada Bhagwan