Quotes About Fear

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.

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

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Monsters don't get happy endings.

Taking a risk to survive isn't that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.