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"Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear."
"Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing."
"There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim."
"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."
"Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed."
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
"Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing."
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."
"We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent."
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not."
"We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God."
"Fear always springs from ignorance."
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."
"Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat."
"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength."
"Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life."
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
