One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
When desire dies, fear is born.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Courage is not the absence of fear it is inspiring others to move beyond it.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
All we have to fear is fear itself.
I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature
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.
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.
Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?
Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
