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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.
Portnoy's Complaint
You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent.
Demian
Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear
Fear arises sooner than anything else
People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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