#fear

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Security is an illusion. The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing.

To be afraid of life is to be afraid of death. And to be afraid of death is to be unable to live.

We are all floating on an ocean of boundless grace, but we behave like paupers terrified of drowning in a teacup.

Find out what you fear most; that is where you will find your next growth.

The highest, most decisive moments of life are often accompanied by fear.

Fear is an indicator that you are approaching something genuinely important.

The treasure you seek is hidden in the cave you fear to enter.

To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; for it is to think that one knows what one does not know.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, but he who noble-mindedly faces that which is terrible.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Paradoxical intention teaches us to confront our fears directly with a smile, stripping anxiety of its catastrophic power.

To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Fear twists our ideas and makes us crooked.

The soul has no frontiers except those built by fear.

When you understand the root of fear, fear dies.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Do not fear mistakes; fear only the lack of courage to learn from them.

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.