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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
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Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Writing is a dance with the uncertainties of language.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
I personally think we developed language
because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
Use what language you will,
you can never say anything but what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anais Nin
A riot is, at bottom, the language of the unheard.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw,
hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
Relevant detail, couched in concrete,
colorful language, is the best way
to recreate the incident as it happened
and to picture it for the audience.
- Dale Carnegie
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed
in the language of logic,
we are engaged in science.
If it is communicated through forms
whose connections are not accessible
to the conscious mind but are
recognized intuitively as meaningful,
then we are engaged in art.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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