"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor." ~ Michel de Montaigne
"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains." ~ Swami Brahmananda
"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer." ~ D.T. Suzuki
"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways -- either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength." ~ Dalai Lama
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?" ~ Kahlil Gibran
"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." ~ Persius
"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ~ Plato
"...if
the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science,
which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work
itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely,
a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not
be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error." ~ G.W.F. Hegel
"Concern
should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who
cannot control himself.” ~ Pythagoras
"Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling
through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other
thoughts are drained." ~ Arthur Somers Roche
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." ~ Booker T. Washington
"What is to give light must endure burning." ~ Viktor Frankl
"If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." ~ Anne Bradstreet
"No garden is without its weeds." ~ Thomas Fuller
"If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill
"I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound." ~ Helen Keller
"Fear always springs from ignorance." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Courage is knowing what not to fear." ~ Plato
"In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice." ~ Viktor Frankl
"The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering." ~ Ram Dass
"...there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense." ~ Thomas Hobbes
"It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted." ~ Seneca
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." ~ Carl Jung
"You have power over your mind -- not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." ~ Michel de Montaigne
"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith." ~ Mary Manin Morrissey
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." ~ Marie Curie
"Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety." ~ Henry Louis Mencken
"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear." ~ George S. Patton
"Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." ~ Brendan Francis
"There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid." ~ Frederick W. Cropp
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." ~ Bertrand Russell
"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself." ~ Samuel Butler
"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" ~ Maurice Freehill
"Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real." ~ Author Unknown
"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1833
"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes -- most of which have never happened." ~ Michel de Montaigne
"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear." ~ Michel de Montaigne
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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