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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured-disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui-in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary.

Gratitude is the antidote to fear.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. 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.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn, and I can't do anything to help? That in itself would be hell for me. I'd be up there fighting god and his angels to let me out, so that I can come down and at least try to help. I am a moral person. Heaven is for uncaring Hypocrites.