8,403 Quotes About Fear

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.

I was no longer afraid of death, because I died enough times to understand that death and life are two sides of the same page. Just like Estrella’s light and darkness. Death could not harm me here on this lake. I was already dead. The dead can never die!

If we do not have the depths, how do we have the heights? Yet you fear the depths, and do not want to confess that you are afraid of them. It is good, though, that you fear yourselves; say it out loud that you are afraid of yourselves. It is wisdom to fear oneself.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

There are people who fear XYZ. And then there are those who are obsessed with XYZ. These are two extremes.If you're on one extreme, get to know the other extreme. It will help you come to the middle where there is peace.

I want what I'm afraid of and I'm afraid of what I want so that I'm like a storm inside that can't break loose!

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.