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To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
Sep 10, 2025
Beyond drama and chaos, beyond anxiety and fear, lies a zone of endless peace and love. Let's all take a very deep breath, slow down for just a moment and remember this. That alone will open the door.
Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble.
Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.
Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493
To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more you know, the higher your standards are and the more you have to lose.
You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.
Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.
Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.
Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.
I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.
I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.
The other side of every fear is a freedom.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Perfect love drives out fear
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
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