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No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.