He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
- Topic: Fear, Thinking
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Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
