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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

 

                                          Eric Hoffer

Personal Statement #34: What You Need To Know Before You Die: How Your Religious Beliefs Can Hurt You For Hundreds Of Years To Come: How I Helped A Departed Relative, Trapped In Fears Of Judgment, To Go To The Light!

Personal Statement #42: The Fear of Death and the Meaning of Judgment in the AfterLife: We Cannot Escape our Responsibility to Unfold the Spirit, to Evolve as a Soul, to Love Ourselves! I'm not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of losing you!

Personal Statement #67: The Hidden Meaning, the Many Faces, the Subtle Nature, of Evil! Would you recognize it if you met it, on the street, or in the mirror?

Notre Dame Cathedral, Last Judgment Portal (c.1230):  The Damned

Eleanor Roosevelt: "You must do the things you think you cannot do."

Marcus Aurelius: "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Marie Curie: "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

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

Emerson: "Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it."

Shel Silverstein:

The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg,

But I will not hatch, I will not hatch.

For I hear all the talk of pollution and war

As the people all shout and the airplane roar,

So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm,

And I WILL NOT HATCH!

FDR, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Frederick Knott, listing the five important motives for murder, Dial M for Murder (1952): "Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love."

Dave Barry: "All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears: of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club - and of the words Some Assembly Required."

German Proverb: "Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."

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 frightens us most. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

                                   Marianne Williamson

Frank Herbert: "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."

Brigitte Bardot: "Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts."

Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart: "If you are dealing with fears and insecurities from old head programs, have compassion for yourself. Just love your insecurities, fears and resentments. Release and forgive them as they come up. Judging, beating or repressing insecurities just gives them power. Then you have a pattern that never gets resolved. Recognize that your real security is built from your relationship with your own heart."

Michael Pritchard: "Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."

Cyril Connoly: "Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."

Dale Carnegie: "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Louis Halle: "It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave."

George Eliot: "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."

Livy: "We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."

Henry Louis Mencken: "The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."

George S. Patton: "There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear."

Maurice Freehill: "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"

Author Unknown: "Fear:  False Evidence Appearing Real."

Erica Jong: "I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."

Robert G. Allen: “Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want.”

Emerson: “Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”

Benjamin Graham: “Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.”

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

                                                             Ralph Waldo Emerson

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