Word
Gems
What is a
man but the sum of his thoughts?
Fear
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing
the means he uses to frighten you."-
-
Eric Hoffer
- 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."
- 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."
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."
- “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
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."
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."
- 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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