We fear violence less than our own feelings. personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. you are free.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. the fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. the fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'.

Don't fear failure.—Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law