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Fear

«When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid»
Author: Audre Lorde (Activist, Poet, Teacher) | About: Fear, Strength, Vision | Keywords: The Service
«What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.»
Author: Derrick Jensen | About: Fear, Passion
«Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.»
Author: Earl Nightingale | About: Fear, Knowledge | Keywords: understood
«We may have lost the fear of the bomb in this post cold-war era, but many have not lost the fear of what the future will hold. As someone said to me recently, 'The future isn't what it used to be.'»
«When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it?s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Courage, Duty, Fear, Love
«When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain»
«What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Courage, Fear | Keywords: flee, flees
«We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid»
«What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor»
«What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder»