I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think w...
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.
I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
I had a fear of being alone.
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would ...
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
You know, people do call it homophobia, and even that term alone is interesting to me. Because I don't even know how they call it homophobia, because that's a fear of the same. It's more heterophobia. It's a fear of something different from yourself.
I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Fear and doubt are major stampeders.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
Vengeance is one of life's great motivators.
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
The unknown can be a great tool.
Fear can be a big motivator.
Fear is an excellent motivator.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
