Fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
Author: Aldous Huxley | Source: The Atlantic | Subjects: Fear, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Complicity turns into guilt, and guilt turns into shame, and shame turns into fear.
Author: Cody Johnson | Source: The Washington Post | Subjects: Fear, Psychology | Behavior
When hope is so strong that it altogether drives out fear, its nature changes and it becomes complacency or confidence. And when we are certain that what we desire will come to pass, even though we go on wanting it to come to pass, we nonetheless cease to be agitated by the passion of desire which caused us to look forward to the outcome with … [ Read more ]
Author: Rene Descartes | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Fear, Hope, Psychology | Behavior
The mere fact of thinking that a good may be acquired or an evil avoided is sufficient to produce the desire for this to come to pass. But when, over and above this, we consider whether our desire is likely to be satisfied or not, the idea that it is likely arouses hope in us, and the idea that it is unlikely arouses fear, of … [ Read more ]
Author: Rene Descartes | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Fear, Hope, Psychology | Behavior
There is nothing that sustains you like hate; it is better to be anything than afraid.
Author: Caryl Chessman | Subjects: Fear, Psychology | Behavior
The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don’t need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need courage for the next step.
Author: Shane Parrish | Subjects: Advice, Fear, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word.
Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Fear, Psychology | Behavior
We create fear or make fear go away depending on what story we tell ourselves.
Author: Roger Martin | Source: YouTube | Subjects: Fear, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
Author: William Shakespeare | Subjects: Concepts, Fear, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom
Most human behavior is driven by our innate desire to avoid pain, rejection, and fear. If you can handily manipulate one (or a combination) of those three factors, you can get someone to do just about anything.
Author: Joe Forrest | Source: Instrument of Mercy | Subjects: Fear, Psychology | Behavior
In general, one is only right when either wish or fear coincides with reality. If one recognizes this, one cannot, of course, get rid of one’s subjective feelings, but one can to some extent insulate them from one’s thinking and make predictions cold-bloodedly, by the book of arithmetic.
Author: George Orwell | Subjects: Concepts, Desires, Fear, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
If uncertainty is our core fear, we will pursue certainty at all cost, being rigid in our behaviors and thinking. We hold on to our opinions and feelings as facts. Our heart is closed to uncertainty, and therefore the richness of this moment. We may believe that we always need to have the right answer and that others who don’t agree with us are just … [ Read more ]
Author: Hylke Faber | Subjects: Fear, Psychology | Behavior
Persons who are either too wealthy or too happy in their own lives tend to lose the need of love. It should also serve as a warning that those who are prone to love are equally prone to fear.
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Fear, Love
Fear, laziness and anger. These are the downfall of human beings.
Author: Unknown | Source: Sanskrit Saying | Subjects: Fear, Wisdom
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Author: Ambrose Redmond | Subject: Fear
I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, … [ Read more ]
Author: Yann Martel | Subjects: Fear, Psychology | Behavior
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Author: François de La Rochefoucauld | Subjects: Fear, Wisdom
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
Author: Andre Gide | Subjects: Fear, Travel, Wisdom
Is a ten-headed monster more frightening than an idea?
Author: Fynn | Subjects: Fear, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry
Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they can never shake.
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Fear, Love