October 14, 2008

Quotes About Fear: It’s The Mind-Killer!

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We all know that “Fear is The Mind-Killer”. Here in this post, I collected some of the best quotes about fear to encourage ourselves to FACE it. I hope you enjoy them:

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?” — SENECA

I’m an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. — Mark Twain

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. — Frank Herbert

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. — Virgil Thomson

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. — Helen Adams Keller

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. — Dorothy Thompson

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom. — Marilyn Ferguson