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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.

To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously...

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

We are all afraid of something. But that shouldn't stop us from going on every day. We should not always walk in fear of the shadow while we are in the light. It is certain we will not know when or how the difficult and bad times will come, but if we accept that they will come, then they are easier to face when they do. And always remember that anything that causes the shadow is smaller than the source of light.

We are born male. We must learn to be men. Remember, strength is a force. It is an attribute of the heart. Its opposite is not weakness and fear, but confusion, lack of clarity, and lack of sound intention. If you are able to discern the path with heart and follow it even when at the moment it seems wrong, then and only then are you strong. Remember the words of Tao te ching. "The only true strength is a strength that people do not fear." Strength based in force is a strength people fear. Strength based in love is a strength people crave.