Afraid Of Life Quotes

• I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.

  Sharon Stone

  Nice, Lying, Long

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

  James F. Byrnes

  Life, Happiness, Death

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• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Concentrate on the wonders and joys of this life, and accept the very best which is your true heritage. It is not being an ostrich, afraid of life and not facing it. It is seeing the reality of this glorious life which is yours, and in doing so, helping to bring it about. The more clearly you can see it, the more quickly will it come about.

  Eileen Caddy

  Life, Attitude, Reality

  Eileen Caddy (2007). “Opening Doors Within: 365 Daily Meditations from Findhorn”, Simon and Schuster

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• Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

  Alexander Lowen

  Masters

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• There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Different, Unfamiliar, Adapting

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.303, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Dying, Not Afraid, Bores

  The New York Times, April 03, 1970.

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• Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

  Thomas Browne

  Suicide, Jobs, Taught Us

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.112

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• The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Facts, Cold

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• Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They're so afraid of eternity. They're so afraid of life. They're so afraid of what's on the other side of death. There is nothing but light. God is everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Buddhism

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• I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

  Stephen King

  Fear, Cutting, Jake

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Running, House

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• one should be afraid of life, not of death.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Life And Death, Life Death, Should

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• We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.

  Marianne Williamson

  Dying, Floating, Growing

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• Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Live Life, Hands

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• A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Men, Doors

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• Having a baby is part of a woman's life, and it is surely a great waste to be afraid of life.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Baby, Waste, Having A Baby

  Joan Lowery Nixon (2013). “In The Face of Danger”, p.34, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That`s why I am talking about this Hasidic approach. The whole approach consists of methods, ways and means of how to die - the art of dying is the art of living also. Dying as an ego is being born as a non `ego; dying as a part is being born as a whole; dying as man is a basic step towards being born as a God.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Mean, Men

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• You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.

  Anna Kavan

  Hurt, It Hurts

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