Thoughts on Fear
Everyone can relate to fear. You have a choice whether you know it or not to transcend the experience of fear or succum to it and allow it to limit your possibilities.
Below I have assembled some thoughts to reflect on. I hope they serve to inspire, comfort, and encourage you.
Jeanne
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy - Dale Carnegie.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear - Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher, Mathematician and Author.
Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move - Osho, Indian Spiritual Teacher.
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us - Marianne Williamson, American Author and Social Activist.
How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that - Vernon Howard.
'My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,' the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. 'Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.' - Paulo Coelho
The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be -Dalai Lama.
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. Doubt has killed more splendid projects, shattered more ambitious schemes, strangled more effective geniuses, neutralized more superb efforts, blasted more fine intellects, thwarted more splendid ambitions than any other enemy of the human race - James Allen.
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there -Author Unknown.
Fear defeats more people than poverty, ignorance, superstition, ill health or lack of mental ability - Albert Wiggam.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? Your are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others - Marianne Williamson.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt - William Shakespeare.
Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than even you expect. So don't let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches - Mike Dooley.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure - Paulo Coelho.
There's only now…There's only here...Give in to love...Or live in fear...No other path...No other way...No day but today...No day but today - Jonathan Larson.
The wise man in a storm prays to God, not for safety from danger; but for deliverance from fear - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
There are millions of Americans who are clever and fearless, but the trouble is they are only four years old - Author Unknown.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living In better conditions - Hafiz.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear - Ambrose Redmoon.
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use - Earl Nightingale.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover - Mark Twain, American Author.
“Come to the edge.” “We can't. We're afraid.” “Come to the edge.” “We can't. We will fall!” “Come to the edge.” And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew - Guillaume Apollinaire, French Poet, Philosopher.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours
-Ayn Rand, Russian-born American Author.
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom - Anais Nin, American Author.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President Of The United States.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail - Ralph Waldo Emerson. American Poet.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go - T. S. Eliot, American-British Poet.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult - Seneca, Roman Philosoper, Statesman.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American Civil Rights Leader.
I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move - The Bible, Matthew 17:20.
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic - Jean Sibelius, Finnish Composer.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind - The Bible, Timothy 1:7.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals - Henry Ford.
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed - Lloyd Jones.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all - Dale Carnegie, American Author.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet.
The only way out is through - Fritz Perls, Psychologist.
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