#fear

To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead... ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#life

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#fear-of-life #orgasm #pleasure #psychoanalysis #psychology

Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question. ↗

— Melissa Senate

#curiosity #fearless #self-confidence #life

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fear #life

Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn. ↗

— Mike Norton

#beethoven #confidence #correct #fear #incorrect

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again. ↗

— Tonya Hurley

#fear #living-life #life

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hooker #hunter #loathing #thompson #waitress

That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend the primary fantasy in the defiance, and avoid the real gamble or real adventure of taking a chance on something new. They are afraid that if they really cry out, if they really ask, if they really scream for help, that it won't come, and they'll be in the same panicky frightened state they were in when they were little. ↗

— Robert W. Firestone

#life

Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something. ↗

— Iyanla Vanzant

#iyanla-vanzant #life #quote #wisdom #wisdom-quote

These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports...they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them...that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#fear #philosophy-of-life #stupidity #thrill-seekers #life