Fear
defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Do not anticipate
trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. -- Benjamin
Franklin
Do
not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. -- Benjamin
Franklin
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
-- Dag
Hammarskjold
“In
order to rally people, governments need enemies.
They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally
behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy,
they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
Though
we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within
us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead
nourish our positive qualities – those of compassion,
understanding, and loving kindness.
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
"We
often think of peace as the absence of war; that if
the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals,
we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the
weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears,
and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs
to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for
bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds,
and sooner or later we would make new bombs. Seek
to become more aware of what causes anger and separation,
and what overcomes them. Root out the violence in
your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully."
--
Thich
Nhat Hanh
Peace is more than
just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in
fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need. -- Poul
Hartling
The
greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make
one. -- Elbert Hubbard
The
way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget
to be afraid. -- Lady Bird Johnson
"With
our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we
can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive
(though based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be possible to relearn
a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape without violation. With the least violation."
~ Janet Kauffman
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"
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never
fear to negotiate
-- John
F. Kennedy
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"
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never
fear to negotiate
-- John
F. Kennedy
"We
have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures of power, indescribably complicated
problems to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether and succumb
to fear and impotence in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves created,
it is as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and violence between nations
as it is to put an end to poverty and racial injustice." -- Martin
Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
If
we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers…Mankind's
greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make
our choices built from love or from fear. --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Fear
is not the natural state of civilized man. -- Aung
San Suu Kyi