Its better to burn out than fade away.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate.
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.
All we have to fear is fear itself.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
