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

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

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Max LucadoFearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear

The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.

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Max LucadoFearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came her...

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We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves i...

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Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily reso...

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Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enem...

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How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she wou...

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I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevi...

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It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears ...

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What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

The thing I fear most is fear.

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Michel de MontaigneThe Complete Essays

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they ...

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Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hop...

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It makes me very sad. Everyone's afraid of each other - Jews are afraid of Palestinians, Palestinian...

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Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s t...

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Mitch AlbomThe First Phone Call from Heaven

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let...

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I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a ...

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We can't be brave without fear.

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the car...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize...

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Jija killed his own son for what a completely different person did, long before that son's birth. Th...

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Denying what you are didn't keep people from knowing what you are.""And flaunting it isn't what save...

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Syl Anagist's assimilation of the world had been over a century before I was ever made; all cities w...

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Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

It was any outcast's nightmare.If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black ...

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You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body. One of these entities is motivated by a...

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Napoleon HillOutwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own ...

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The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds--the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild b...

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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fe...

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I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the ne...

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Being brave doesn't mean you're not scared.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling ...

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Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ...

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She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow...

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Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmare...

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She was the storm, she was the lightning...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more compl...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

...but fear of death gives us strength.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don...

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When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value l...

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Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feare...

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happi...

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he...

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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As ...

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We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrim...

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Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate en...

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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the revers...

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And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather...

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From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather ...

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There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that ou...

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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people a...

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Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises i...

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As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion an...

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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really...

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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how fill...

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I don't think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It's just cause and effect. We never can sor...

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He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idi...

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All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is ...

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For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretc...

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Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrifi...

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Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know ho...

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I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that ro...

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At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole bo...

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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not...

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Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-aft...

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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humo...

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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky even...

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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the S...

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If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must b...

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Once I knew what was bothering me, the greater part of my uneasiness left. Fear tends to come from i...

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...

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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a...

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