Quotes of: Fearing Keyword

There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)

The Wise Man's Fear

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

Walden

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

White Nights

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

White Noise

While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

They don’t have classes on bravery in middle school. If they did I’d have signed up. It would have been helpful to learn how to stare down what I feared most and not blink.

What Flowers Remember

♫ Climbed that roost, alighted right there. Made mush of his head for the onlooker bears. A two-pronger her prize, a meat most rare. Do-gooders will pay. Do-gooders will fear. ♫

Where Madness Roosts

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

Wizard's First Rule

Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference.

Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is true indeed that dogs smell fear. Cats don't say.

Wall to Wall

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Never be afraid to write what you believe. If the message speaks the truth, others will fear your words for you.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Woman at Point Zero

For those who fear to die, death walks behind them like an ominous shadow. But for those who embrace it, death casts a gentle eye upon that person.

The Way To Dawn: Ascension Zero

It is one of the strangest anomalies of life that the absence of fear, and not formal education or brilliance of mind, is the major cause of individual success.

You Can Work Your Own Miracles

Doubt, fear, and hesitation are enemies of the mind, for a weak will severs our inborn connection with the universe, dampens the faith with which we are able to join our will to it.

Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Haniel Long

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like...

Julia Glass