What do you have to fear? Whom do you have to fear? No one? Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death….
No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
The effect of fear on one’s general health is depressive, since it constricts breathing and the circulation of blood: the action of the heart is restricted and breathing is shallow. The whole system in consequence becomes impoverished.
Fear is a sign of weakness. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
So long as you are dominated by fear you cannot enjoy perfect health… And fear has just as harmful an effect on one’s efficiency as on one’s health.
To fear disease, failure or trouble is to sow seeds in the subconscious field that will bring forth a harvest of diseased conditions, troubled thoughts, confused mental states and misdirected actions in body and mind.
I feel quite sure that nothing makes people age faster than fear.
The best way to overcome the habit of fear is to assure the mental attitude of courage, just as the best way to get rid of darkness is to let in the light.
Fear stands as a gloomy sentinel and will not let the spirit pass into possession of its best. The strands of failure are made from the fibres of fear; wherever fear is active, failure is its neighbour.