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Quotes About Fear

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
~ William Shenstone
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
~ Honore de Balzac
Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
~ Frederick Lenz
War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
~ F. Paul Wilson, Reprisal
Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.
~ Frederick Lenz
Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
~ Pete Docter
Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.
~ Mason Cooley
I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.
~ Andy Cohen
Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
~ C.P. Cavafy
If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.
~ Geneen Roth
It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.
~ Rumi
Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
~ Julian Baggini
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
~ Willa Cather
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
~ Sharon Salzberg
This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.
~ Tara Brach
Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.
~ Mason Cooley
Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
~ William Shakespeare
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
~ Edmund Burke
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
~ Agatha Christie
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.
~ Bruce Lee