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Fear

«We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.»
«We fear the thing we want the most.»
Author: Dr. Robert Anthony | About: Fear | Keywords: The Thing
«Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.»
«To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.»
«We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.»
Author: Thomas E. Dewey | About: Fear, Future
«Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.»
Author: Publilius Syrus | About: Courage, Fear | Keywords: daring, valor
«We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.»
Author: Thomas Merton | About: Fear | Keywords: condemn, irrational, mania, patient
«To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.»
«To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.»
Author: Peter McWilliams | About: Fear | Keywords: heightened
«We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality»
Author: Seneca | About: Fear | Keywords: fanciest, fancy, frightened, spring, troubles