#fearless

Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#men

Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire until now. And now here it is running icily through him in the hot Chinese noon. Fear for the thing he loves, the only fear that can ever wholly cow the reckless and the brave. ("Jane Brown's Body") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#fearless #fearlessness #inspirational

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#fear #fearless #ego

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#morality #path #true #fearless

When you have mastered fear then you have mastered all. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#fear #fearless #master-fear #overcome-fear #phobia

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. ↗

— Christian Bale

#fearless #i #recognize #scared #should

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#am #anyone #call #crazier #fearless

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#around #bras #dancing #different #different world

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you. ↗

— Henry J. Kaiser

#boldly #competition #fearlessly #forth #found

Perhaps we are not following Christ all the way or in the right spirit. We are likely, for example, to be a little sparing of the palms and hosannas. We are chary of wielding the scourge of small cords, lest we should offend somebody or interfere with trade. We do not furnish up our wits to disentangle knotty questions about Sunday observance and tribute money, nor hasten to sit at the feet of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions. We pass hastily over disquieting jests about making friends with the mammon of unrighteousness and alarming observations about bringing not peace but a sword; nor do we distinguish ourselves by the graciousness by which we sit at meat with publicans and sinners. Somehow or other, and with the best intentions, we have shown the world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore---and this in the name of the one who assuredly never bored a soul in those thirty-three years during which he passed through the world like a flame. Let us, in heaven's name, drag out the divine drama from under the dreadful accumulation of slipshod thinking and trashy sentiment heaped upon it, and set it on an open stage to startle the world into some sort of vigorous reaction. If the pious are the first to be shocked, so much worse for the pious---others will pass into the kingdom of heaven before them. If all men are offended because of Christ, let them be offended; but where is the sense of their being offended at something that is not Christ and is nothing like him? We do him singularly little honor by watering down his personality till it could not offend a fly. Surely it is not the business of the Church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#following-christ #business