Quotes About Fear

If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.

Sie schufen ein Elixier, mit dem man Buchpapier parfümieren konnte, welches all diese beschriebenen Angstsymptome erzeugte, von der Gänsehaut bis hin zum Herzstillstand.

Wohin gehen wir denn?" "In den Keller." "schloss Schattenhall hat einen Keller?" "Natürlich", sagte Homunkoloss. "Jedes unheimliche Schloss hat einen Keller" (S. 402)

Sie ist schon da, was?", fragte Homunkoloss. "Wer ist da?" "Die größte aller Gefahren." "Die größte aller Gefahren? Hier? Wo? Wo ist sie?" Ich sah mich panisch um, nach einer fetten Schlange oder einer giftigen Tunnelspinne, aber da war nichts. "Sie steckt in dir", sagte Homunkoloss. "Die Furcht." (S. 436)

Die Neugier ist die mächtigste Antriebskraft im Universum, weil sie die beiden größten Bremskräfte im Universum überwinden kann: die Vernunft und die Angst.

Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.

Si no tengo nada que perder, ¿por qué el miedo? Si acepto lo peor que pueda suceder, ¿qué más da? La despreocupación bien llevada es maravillosa, porque si nada me es indispensable, el miedo no tendrá dónde echar raíces.

Amar sin apegos es amar sin miedos. Es asumir el derecho a explorar intensamente el mundo, a hacerse cargo de uno mismo y a buscar un sentido de vida. También significa tener una actitud realista frente al amor, afianzar el autorespeto y fortalecer el autocontrol. Es disfrutar de la dupla placer/seguridad, sin volverla imprescindible. Es hacer las paces con Dios y la incertidumbre. Es tirar la certeza a la basura y dejar que el universo se haga cargo de uno. Es aprender a renunciar.

Si gana el sentido de la dignidad, habrá respuesta asertiva, si triunfa el miedo, habrá evitación/sumisión.

La postergación es la estrategia que apadrina el miedo y la pereza de los incapaces.

El miedo llamó a la puerta, la confianza abrió y afuera no había nadie. PROVERBIO CHINO

libertad auténtica es cuando la mente se desprende de lo inútil y de los miedos; cuando decide rechazar todos los apegos y los supuestos privilegios (estatus, poder, fama) que alimentan el ego hasta convertirlo en algo insufrible. Placeres del tener que nos atan o nos hacen caminar en círculos; malos placeres, diría

Maquiavelo dice: "Los fantasmas asustan más de lejos que de cerca".

it's important to understand that if your fears grow, you could end up holding both yourself and the other person back from living life to its full potential and successfully recovering from the traumatic experience which you saw them have. Tackling

Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.

Psalm 34:4, which she had committed to memory, popped into her mind: "I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." Then she though of Psalm 37:5 "Commit thy way unto the LORD; turst also in him: and he shall bring it to pass." She'd found that passage in Grandma's Bible and had quoted it often as a reminder that she should trust the Lord in all things, while she committed her way unto him.

He who has need of riches feels fear on their account. But no man enjoys a blessing that brings anxiety. He is always trying to add a little more. While he puzzles over increasing his wealth, he forgets how to use it.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side. Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

Fear is the enemy of curiosity

We've seen that companies sometimes use a hypothetical What If question to temporarily remove constraints that can inhibit ambitious thinking (What if cost weren't an issue—how might we do things differently?), and the same principle applies when people are pursuing new ideas or embarking on change in their lives. Often the biggest constraint is fear of failure.

you can't help but feel uncomfortable," because it becomes clear that fear of failure "keeps us from attempting great things . . . and life gets dull. Amazing things stop happening." But if you can get past that fear, Dugan said, "Impossible things suddenly become possible.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.