Fear Quotes by Erik Pevernagie

15 Fear quotes by Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie tackles the uneasy feeling with a philosopher’s eye and a writer’s clarity. In 15 brief notes, he shows how fear can be a quiet teacher rather than a looming monster.

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“We should not fear the fragility of truth, for it creates openness to correction, learning, and growth. It fosters empathy, making inquiry,…

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“Fear can be a first-rate stool pigeon, a precious safeguard or a wise counselor. If it overwhelms us, we would do well…

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“The world can spare psychopathic masterminds of fear, pushing the panic button all along. Instead, let us look at the unfettering light…

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“Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way…

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“Let's not be afraid of stilling our mind and having mercy with ourselves, and allowing us patience to recover from our dazzling…

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“For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose…

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“Conspiracy adepts love story-tellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people…

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“The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and…

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“Through living in a space that we do not understand, everything may become meaningless, incoherent, and forcefully scary. If fear rules our…

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“We need not be afraid of learning to know ourselves, fearing it would come down to disappointment. Remaining humble allows us to…

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“Thank you“ might be the hardest word to say. We may wonder, what can be so castrating about embracing gratitude? Some think…

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“Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any…

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“Life gives us a bunch of choices because everything is a matter of perception. Where some see the light, others see darkness.…

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“If we don’t want life to treat us like poor clodhoppers or bland hang-abouts, we have to turn ‘surviving’ into ‘living’, readjust…

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“If life beats us up, while we have our back to the wall, there is no other way than exorcising fear and…

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“When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience…

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“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in…

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“When we are grappling with misery and our heart is in a knot, we may well do better to snap back to a new…

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“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine,…

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“If the vibrant and frolicking merry-go-round of our daily living has been ousted by an eerie void of an intractable vacuum, only inspiriting memories…

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“One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a…

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“Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry blossom petal.…

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“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has become a…

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“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find out the…

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“When people’s parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of…

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“Love is a challenge with an illusion emanating an aura of otherness. Through their unrelenting attention, two smitten people can arouse a to and…

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