#fear

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#sin

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#past #manners

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#fear #mankind #mankind

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#greed #rich #wall-street #greed

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful ↗

— Warren Buffett

#greed #investment-advice #greed

God didn’t give fear a body. God gave love a body. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#god #inspirational #life #love #motivational

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assumption #bias #blame #extroversion #extroverts

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. ↗

— André Gide

#fear #ridicule #cowardice

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#health #trembling #struggle

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#shame #shame