#fear

There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#dust #fear #shadows #waste-land #death

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#advance #cannot #danger #every #fearing

What would you do if you were not afraid ? ↗

— Spencer Johnson

#fear-of-failure #change

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. ↗

— William J Federer

#republic #rule #tyranny #tyrant #virtue

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#change

This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions. ↗

— Olli Jalonen

#government #politics #change

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#fear #change

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#attitudes #change #fear #hostility #perception

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove ↗

— T.M. Williams

#change #empowering #fear #home #change

Do not fear. Some things will never change. ↗