All Quotes By Tag: Fear
“When you let fear decide your action, you let fear decide your life.”
“If you can’t face your fears, they become your limitations.”
“When I look into the eyes of my fear, I don’t see an enemy. I see a friend, misguided in their doing but with an intention to protect me. My fear is not my enemy. My fear is my friend. I will honour my fear’s presence and advice but I will follow my heart in action.”
“The only way to be brave is to act despite fear not in the absence of fear.”
“And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.”
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“Do not believe in fear.”
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“Discomfort in the present is the path to betterment.”
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“You are your biggest obstacle, but you are also the change that you seek.”
“When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is “really” there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.”from Coleridge: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread”
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“But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.”
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“Holy Faith is fear for God.”
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“Cowards say it can’t be done, critics say it shouldn’t have been done, creator say well done.”
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“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I’ll let you keep one. Which will it be?”
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“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”
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