T Quotes
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“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.”
“The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“The fear of being misunderstood is the beginning of mediocrity.”
“The fear of being poor or broke is a blessing, if you are a successful entrepreneur; but is a curse, if you want to be an entrepreneur.”
“The fear of being uncovered, the fear of being made known for their wickedness is what is driving the ADL and that Synagogue of Satan, false Jews to pin the label on me as an anti-Semite. This is something they feel they must do in order to cover the evil that they have done or are a party to.”
“The fear of being yourself is the beginning of self-doubt.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.”
“The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.”
Source: Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]
“The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“The fear of death came over him gradually. It was as if somebody were striking his heart a powerful blow with the fist from below. This sensation was rather painful than terrible. Then the sensation was forgotten, but it returned again a few hours later, and each time it grew more intense and of longer duration, and thus it began to assume vague outlines of some great, even unbearable fear.
"Is it possible that I am afraid?" thought Sergey in astonishment. "What nonsense!”
Source: The Seven Who Were Hanged
“The fear of death comes from limited awareness.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in the wilderness over the heads of the Israelites; but not with so good excuse as that symbol had, for this fear has not been curative, I think, nor made into pleasant or graceful shape, but rather a horrid spectacle, to affright people. For that men can be frightened into piety has been one of the legacies of religion which barbarous ages have bequeathed us plentifully.”
“The fear of death haunted me for a year. I cried whenever anyone dropped a glass or broke a picture. But even then that passed, I was left with a sadness that couldn't be rubbed off. It wasn't that something had happened. It was worse: I'd become aware of what had been with me all along without my notice. I dragged this new awareness around like a stone tied to my ankle. Wherever I went, it followed. I used to make up little sad songs in my head. I eulogized the falling leaves. I imagined my death in a hundred different ways, but the funeral was always the same: from somewhere in my imagination, out rolled a red carpet. Because after every secret death I died, my greatness was always discovered.”
Source: The History of Love
“The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.”
Source: Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!”
“The fear of death is fear of time, and the fear of time is, deeply, fear of unlived moments, unlived life.
So what to do? Live more, and live more intensely.
It is your life, live it.
Don't sacrifice it for words, theories...
It is your life, LIVE IT!
Live it! And don't think that it is a courage to die. The only courage is to live life totally, there is no other courage.
And live in total freedom so intensely that every moment is transformed into eternity.
If you live a moment intensely it is transformed into eternity.
There are two ways of being related with time: one is just to swim on the surface of the ocean, another is to dive deep, to go to the depths.
If you are just swimming on the ocean of time you will be always afraid because the surface is not the reality. The surface is not really the ocean, it is just the boundary, it is just the periphery. Go to the depth, move towards the depth. When you live a moment deeply you are no more part of time.
If you have been in love, and deeply in love, time disappears. When you are with your beloved or your lover or your friend suddenly there is no time. You are moving in depth. If you have loved music, if you have a musical heart, you know time stops. If you have the sense of beauty, aesthetic sensibility and sensitiveness - look at a rose and time disappears, look at the moon and where is time? The clock immediately stops. The hands go on moving but time stops.
If you have loved anything deeply you know that you transcend time. The secret has been revealed to you many times. Life itself reveals it to you.
Life would like you to enjoy. Life would like you to celebrate. Life would like you to participate so deeply that there is no repentance for the past, that you don't remember the past, because every moment you go more and more deep - every moment life becomes more and more beautiful, more orgasmic, a peak experience, and by and by, when you become attuned to the peak, that becomes your abode.
That's how an enlightened man lives, he lives totally and moment to moment.
Time is a problem because you have not been living rightly - it is symbolic, it is symptomatic. If you live rightly the problem of time disappears, the fear of time disappears.
So, what to do? Each moment, whatsoever you are doing, do it totally. Simple things - taking a bath; take it totally, forget the whole world; sitting, sit; walking, walk, above all don't wobble; sit under the shower and let the whole existence fall on you. Be merged with those beautiful drops of water falling on you. Small things: cleaning the house, preparing food, washing clothes, going for a morning walk - do them totally, then there is no need for any meditation.
Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears.
And remember, when time disappears, death disappears. Then you are not afraid of death. In fact you wait.
Just think of the phenomenon. When you wait for death how can death exist?
This waiting is not suicidal. This waiting is not pathological. You lived your life. If you have lived your life death becomes the very peak of it all. Death is the climax of life, the pinnacle, the crescendo.
You lived all small waves of eating, drinking, sleeping, walking, making love, small waves, great waves, you lived - then comes the greatest wave. You die! You have to live that too in its totality.
And then one is ready to die. That very readiness is the death of death itself.
That's how people have come to know that nothing dies. Death is impotent if you are ready to live it, death is very powerful if you are afraid. Unlived life gives power to death. A totally lived life takes all power from death. Death is not.”
Source: Tao The Three Treasures volume 3
“The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.”
Source: Falconer
“The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.”
Source: The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues
“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
“the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”
Source: Coincidance: A Head Test
“The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.”
Source: An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
“The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.”
Source: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“The fear of death make people do all the stupid things in the world. You want protection from evil? But who will live forever?”
“The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.”
Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”
Source: Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89
“The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.”
Source: Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89
“The fear of death, the fear of losing the reality around us, was the force that could make this world real for us.”
Source: Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
“The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.”
“The fear of eternal judgement is force that makes a man repent of evil..”
“The fear of failing the Gods is still a fear, and fear is nothing but failure itself.”
“The fear of failing was powerful, just as fear of the unknown and uncharted destinies was.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“The fear of failure doesn’t prevent anyone from failing. You do it or you don’t – you still fail by default”
“The fear of failure has sabotaged many hopes and dreams.”
“The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them”
“The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,”
Source: The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
“The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity.”
Source: The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
“The fear of failure repels opportunities for success”
“The fear of failure, the fear of competition, the fear of being ridiculed, the fear of running out of expenses and many more such issues encompass us when we start thinking about our dreams.”
Source: When Success Eludes...A Step by Step Guide To Success
“The fear of falling for the wrong one
only prevents you to grow wings for the right love.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“The fear of falling is real,
but the weight of standing still is heavier.
To be fully alive,
you must risk the ground beneath your feet—
only then will you understand the freedom
of standing on air.”
“the fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to work because it's so close to us, it's our own bodies, that we don't see it as coming from outside ourselves, we don't name it for the weapon it is.”
“The fear of fear is counterproductive. Fear healthy fear, not unhealthy fear. Healthy fear protects you from danger, while unhealthy fear incapacitates you and prevents you from taking action to achieve your envisioned objectives. The corollary of unhealthy fear is indecision and inaction,whereas the corollary of healthy fear is deliberate decisiveness and courage.”
“The fear of forgetting anything precious can trigger in us the wish to raise a structure, like a paperweight to hold down our memories.”
Source: The Architecture of Happiness