Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision NOT TO WORRY about what other people think, do, or say.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.[Vielleicht ist alles Schreckliche im tiefsten Grunde das Hilflose, das von uns Hilfe will.]
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.
Of course we’re frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened.
Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, arid deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.
No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
Men fear wanderers for they have no rules.
