#fear

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. ↗

— Edward Albert

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Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. ↗

— Edward Albert

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From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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The tragedy is all right there...in the very beginning when he smiles at her. When she instantly forgets. Forgets how dangerous he is. ↗

— Anne Eliot

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How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise? ↗

— Don DeLillo

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One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens. ↗

— Dossie Easton

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The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love ↗

— Hilary Stanton Zunin

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Remember that only love conquers fear. ↗

— Marissa Burt

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The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try. ↗

— Susan Mallery

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Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

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