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" Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough. "

Not Good Enough

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" I will show you fear in a handful of dust. "

" Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" Where fear is, happiness is not. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. "

" Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. "

" I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either. "

" You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame. "

" I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. "

" Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak. "

" Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow. "

Mother Angelica

" I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country. "

Thomas Jefferson

" As an actor you have one great fear: pimples! "

Jonathan Brandis

" Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. "

Douglas MacArthur

" One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics. "

" It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. "

Douglas MacArthur

" Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old. "

" My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

" There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love. "

" By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. "

" He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost. "

" Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. "

" Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. "

Viktor E. Frankl

" Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid. "

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" I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales. "

" I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. "

" Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. "

" As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do. "