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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of us fear, worry, that if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

Failure is sucess if we learn from it.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.

Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

Fear is a great instructor.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband

Fear betrays unworthy souls.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.

Fear can 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.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

..Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.

Fear is the highest fence.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

Fear comes from the mind, love comes from your heart; listen to the heart.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.