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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Shirley MacLaine.
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that love conquers fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem,
but you sow the seeds for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Faith is trusting in the good.
Fear is putting your trust in the bad.
- Rhonda Byrne
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
- Karl Barth
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
A mentality of scarcity - of lack -
is the natural consequence of
viewing the world through eyes of fear.
In contrast, when the world is viewed
through eyes of love,
the future becomes unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
We must build dikes of courage
to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
For those who do not live in fear of scarcity, life is unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
- The Buddha
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Regret, worry, and fear squeeze
the juice from life leaving a dry hulk.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
- Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Courage is the ladder that supports me
as I ascend from Fear to Unconditional Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I ascend from Fear to Unconditional Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Know that anger is always fear and frustration.
What if we could lean back into the arms of Spirit
and trust the future?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
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