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A THREAD on FEAR by various authors. How fear could be a barrier in one's life, and what to do about it. Awareness is key! Additional insights welcome! 
A THREAD on FEAR by various authors. How fear could be a barrier in one's life, and what to do about it. Awareness is key! Additional insights welcome!
2/ “Fear has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.”
— Zig Ziglar
— Zig Ziglar
3/ “Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
— Shirley Maclaine
— Shirley Maclaine
4/ “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
— Aristotle
— Aristotle
5/ “In time we hate that which we often fear.”
— William Shakespeare
— William Shakespeare
6/ “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”
— Gandhi
— Gandhi
7/ “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
— H. P. Lovecraft
— H. P. Lovecraft
8/ “Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
— Benjamin Disraeli
9/ "We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined."
— Marianne Williamson
— Marianne Williamson
10/ “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
— Dale Carnegie
— Dale Carnegie
11/ “Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
— Chuck Palahniuk
12/ "When we think we have things already figured out, we’re not teachable. Genuine insight can’t dawn on a mind that’s not open to receive it."
— Marianne Williamson
— Marianne Williamson
13/ “Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
— Virgil Thomson
— Virgil Thomson
14/ “If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?”
— Les Brown
— Les Brown
15/ “Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
— Louis E. Boone
— Louis E. Boone
16/ “Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.”
— David Seasbury
— David Seasbury
17/ “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
— Eleanor Roosevelt
18/ “You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
— Eric Hoffer
— Eric Hoffer
19/ “To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.”
— Peter McWilliams
— Peter McWilliams
20/ “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
— James Stephens
— James Stephens
21/ "Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment—or unlearning—of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth."
22/ "Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell."
— Marianne Williamson
— Marianne Williamson
23/ “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration." (cont'd)
24/ "I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
— Frank Herbert
— Frank Herbert
25/ “The best way out is always through.”
— Robert Frost
— Robert Frost
26/ "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7
27/ “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.” Romans 8:38-39
28/ “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
― Plato
“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18
29/ “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie
― Marie Curie
30/ “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle
― Aristotle
31/ “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell
― Joseph Campbell
32/ “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
33/ “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
34/ “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
― Shannon L. Alder
― Shannon L. Alder
35/ “Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it’s contagious.”
― Jimmy Stewart
― Jimmy Stewart
36/ “Fear is an idea crippling, experience-crushing, success-stalling inhibitor inflicted only by yourself.”
― Stephanie Melish
― Stephanie Melish
37/ “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
― Jack Canfield
― Jack Canfield
38/ "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
― Marianne Williamson
― Marianne Williamson
