Best Fears Of Life Quotes

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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 other side of every fear is a freedom.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.

There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.

Britannia’s shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance – so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.