Apprehension Quote by Anonymous

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice…

— William Hazlitt

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what…

— Frances Perkins

We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

— Douglas MacArthur

The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our…

— Ravi Zacharias

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The…

— Amanda Ripley

Every adversity in your life is presented as a response to your previously unresolved fears. This perfect system allows these subconscious undercurrents to be…

— Melanie Tonia Evan

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us…

— Jean de la Bruyere

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of…

— Abraham Maslow

You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of…

— Robert Anton Wilson

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Most people are strongly wired to be intolerant of uncertainty. We experience it as pain, fear, anxiety, and doubt. When faced with the need…

— Jocelyn K. Glei