Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
Related topics: Wisdom
I argue thee that love is life.
And life hath immortality.
- Emily Dickinson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein
Millions long for immortality
who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
Surely God would not have created such a being as man,
with an ability to grasp the infinite,
to exist only for a day!
No, no, man was made for immortality.
- Abraham Lincoln
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
A man is a god in ruins.
When men are innocent, life shall be longer,
and shall pass into the immortal,
as gently as we awake from dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
A mentality of scarcity - of lack -
is the natural consequence of
viewing the world through eyes of fear.
In contrast, when the world is viewed
through eyes of love,
the future becomes unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most painful and debilitating fear is fear of the unknown.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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