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  • I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  • Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

  • Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm. Don't scream or cry, don't run to him and throw yourself at his feet, pleading for him to take you in his arms, don't strip off your clothes and run naked to the water, wild with wanting.

    Running   Horse   Rivers  
  • Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

    Life   Confidence   Fear  
    A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.
  • Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”
  • The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  • I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

    Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan
  • Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  • The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

    Fear   Halloween   Scary  
    H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.11, Ageless Reads
  • If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  • Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

    Mistake   Sleep   Tyrants  
    "A Reply to Professor Haldane (1946)". "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1966.
  • The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

    H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, eBookIt.com
  • Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

    Fear   Mean   Love Is  
  • The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

  • Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

    Courage   Fear   Mind  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.119, Beacon Press
  • Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

    Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan
  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3
  • This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.

    Father   Men   Honor  
    Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.570, Library of America
  • No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

    'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2
  • Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

    A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.
  • It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

    Fear   Power   Terrorism  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”
  • I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  • It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

    Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.99, Vintage
  • When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

    "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.
  • Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
  • Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”
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