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Fear Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
- The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
- Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
- We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long…
- When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and…
- Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we…
- Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
- As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of…
- Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
- Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just,…
- Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that…
- Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
More Fear Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad