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"The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do."
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
"Fear follows crime and is its punishment."
"They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else."
"You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones."
"Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action."
"Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves."
"Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge."
"There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess."
"Indecision is the seedling of fear."
"The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death"
"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."
"The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality."
"Fear is secured by a dread of punishment."
"From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."
"Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness"
"The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."
"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."
"Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things."
