Quotes About Fear

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

Mas, infelizmente, o que se sente, dia a dia [...] é o homem simples esmagado, diminuído e acomodado, convertido em espectador, dirigido pelo poder dos mitos que forças sociais poderosas criam para ele. Mitos que, voltando-se contra ele, o destroem e aniquilam. É o homem tragicamente assustado, temendo a convivência autêntica e até duvidando de sua possibilidade.

Men and women rarely admit their fear of freedom openly, however, tending rather to camouflage it—sometimes unconsciously—by presenting themselves as defenders of freedom.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

Understanding is a delaying tactic…," as one novelist put it. "Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of water want to understand. Other people jump in and get wet.

Are you Stupid?" "Huh?" "Hotoba-san, Even if you are far away the sky i always connected. Friends are friend no matter where you are. Change isn't so bad...I was scared of change too. We're both scared. Lets be friend...okay?

Gya!! Stay away from me, weirdo! I'll press the burglar alarm!

See what I mean? You fell off. You're such a damsel in distress.

Most of all the feared the God of Darkness, the evil spirit Nakka, who barred their way to paradise after death.

The rich are always afraid.

And though in embraces dear I would press you to my heart, I without them must depart, For, alas! your arms I fear.

What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream.

Qué os admira? ¿Qué os espanta? si fue mi maestro el sueño, y estoy temiendo en mis ansias, que he de despertar, y hallarme otra vez en mi cerrada prisión, y cuando no sea el soñarlo solo basta: pues así llegué a saber que toda la dicha humana en fin pasa como sueño; y quiero hoy aprovecharla el tiempo que me durare, pidiendo de nuestras faltas perdón, pues de pechos nobles es tan propio el perdonarlas.

Hay tanta angustia y espanto dentro de cada uno de nosotros que es necesario idear mecanismos de control y ponerlos a funcionar antes de llegar al punto del naufragio.

Podréis quitarme las monedas que llevo encima, podréis quitarme el reloj de mi muñeca y las llaves que llevo en el bolsillo, podéis quitarme hasta la vida; sólo hay una cosa que no podréis quitarme, por mucho empeño que pongáis: el miedo que tengo.

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.