Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug. – Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the B
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who fear life are already three parts dead. – Bertrand Russell
Replace fear with gratitude, and your whole world changes. – Terri Guillemets, “A renewed outlook,” 2007
Fear makes us feel our humanity. – Benjamin Disraeli
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. – George Matthew Adams
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. – Samuel Butler
Beneath fear, a bit of poetry always escapes. Sometimes, a ready soul picks it up and finds a way to transform it into beautiful verses of courage. – Terri Guillemets, “Abandoned treasure,” 2016
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. – Hāfez
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. – German Proverb
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. – Lloyd Douglas
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man. – Seneca, “On Tranquility of Mind,” translated by Moses Hadas
You are the one giving fear a leg to stand on. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? – Maurice Freehill
Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. – Sophie Tunnell
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. – Katharine Butler Hathaway
I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story… – Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, 2012
