"Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking."
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"We are afraid of the enormity of the possible."
"If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before."
"Fear is blind. There are some options in it, but they're very limited as compared to the options available to the fearless mind."
"People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really."
"It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless."
"But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control."
"I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS."
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"Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared."
"Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless."
"We grow fearless when we do the things we fear."
"We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger."
"When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?"
"That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced."
"Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!"
"It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family."
"He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train."
"It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust."
"What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?"