Fears Quotes (page 119)

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• birthday
• fear
• out

The day which we fear is out last is buth the birthday of eternity Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• fear
• one day
• him

But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience...In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance. Jack London

• fear
• calm
• angered

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger. Alan Cohen

• courage
• fear
• fearless

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous [He is also a fool.]. Robert A. Heinlein

• nature
• reading
• quality

[T]he act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual... Philip Pullman

• good
• fear
• men

Good men have the fewest fears. Christian Nestell Bovee

• fall
• fear
• look

Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling. Georges Bernanos

• country
• fear
• real man

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. George S. Patton

• moving
• wellness
• training

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father , from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl. Charles Dickens

• life
• fear
• cheer

For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not,... Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• grateful
• forward
• hope

No longer forward or behind. I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here. John Greenleaf Whittier

• fear
• men
• fighting

The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation. Baruch Spinoza

• mother
• night
• fear

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. H. G. Wells

• uncle
• fear
• real

[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just... Bob Dylan

• wonderful
• past
• evil

in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man? Ryszard Kapuscinski