Quotes About Perspective

What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Fear is vision without hope.

Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

Don't repackage your fear and try to sell it to me as indifference.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.