It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Its better to burn out than fade away.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. 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.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Courage is not the absence of fear it is inspiring others to move beyond it.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. Im not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
