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Fear is like
fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will
rise up and destroy you. People's actions depend to a great
extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing
them or because we are afraid not to do them.
-John F. Milburn
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If you let
your fear of consequence prevent you from following
your deepest
instinct, your life will be safe, expedient, and thin.
-Katharine
Butler Hathaway
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be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be
always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to
reach east by traveling west. . . . No matter how hard you work for
success,
if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your
efforts,
neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.
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It is very
often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not
entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten
security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have
an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise
we would have been eliminated long ago.
-Smiley
Blanton
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Everything on
earth gives cause for fear,
and the only freedom from fear is to be found
in the renunciation of all desire.
-Bharti-hari
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It is
our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead
to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.
-Marion
Woodman
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keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of
abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear
of not being enough, fear of the future--all these fears and more
keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the
same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving
outside the comfort--or even the familiar discomfort--of what we
know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for
our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.
-Debbie Ford |
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No
passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear. -Edmund
Burke
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Fear is like a little
garden spider that makes
us jump back or the poor lost bee on the
steering wheel that we blame for our
automobile
wreck. The
problem in fear
is our response -- the way we treat animals
or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also
the
universal scapegoat we blame when we
take flight from
intimacy or shrink up
inside ourselves in a thousand little
ways. -Dan Millman
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Fear of trouble, present and future,
often blinds us to the numerous
small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and
thanksgiving. -Unattributed
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We are
all afraid of something. But that shouldn't stop us from going on
every day. We should not always walk in fear of the shadow while we
are
in the light. It is certain we will not know when or how the
difficult and bad
times will come, but if we accept that they will come, then they are
easier
to face when they do.
And always remember that anything that causes the shadow
is smaller than the source of light. -Joseph M.
Marshall III
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The
single most empowering thing we can do for ourselves is to transform fear.
While fear contains tremendous power, it doesn't propel us forward and
upward,
but, rather, drags us down and chains us to the past. Freeing
ourselves from fear is
a loving intention because, as fear subsides, we are better able to access
the soft,
sweet power of our hearts, which naturally leads to loving
ourselves and others more freely and completely.
-Sue
Patton Thoele
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experience, and confidence by every experience where you really
stop to look fear in the face. . . . You must do the thing you
cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt |
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It
is not that you must be free from
fear. The moment you try
to free
yourself from fear, you create a resistance against
fear. Resistance, in any form,
does not end fear. What
is needed, rather
than running away or controlling or suppressing
or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch
it,
learn about it, come directly into contact
with it. We
are to learn about fear,
not how to escape from it, not how to
resist it through courage and so on.
-J.
Krishnamurti
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fears stand between you and what you want. They're worth facing!
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infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove
of
apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith,
hope
and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is
stronger yet. -Norman Vincent Peale |
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There
is a time to take counsel of your fears,
and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
-George
S. Patton
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Nothing
in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
Marie
Curie |
Fears
are educated into us and can,
if we wish, be educated out.
Karl
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The most
important thing that we can do about our fears is to acknowledge
them, and then take steps to understand them and their
sources. Once we take this step, we can work to overcome
them. Fears are our way of keeping ourselves
"safe," but the safety brought about by fears is the
false safety that we could get by locking ourselves alone in a
small room for the rest of our lives. We wouldn't ever catch
the flu again or get hit by a car or face rejection, but we also
never would grow into the people we were meant to be.
-Tom Walsh
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The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
-Helen Keller
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The earth
becomes heaven when you release your fear.
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