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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.
It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.
I react badly to fear. I don't usually have the good sense to run, or hide - I just try to smash whatever it is that is making me afraid. It's a primitive sort of thing, and one I don't question too much.
Fear is intense self-awareness.
Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.
That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.
One hates what one fears.
Fear of confronting emotions is like fear of reading road signs.
Love is a beautiful fear.
Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.
I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
You can be fearful or fearless ... I chose the latter
Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree.
Those who are fear'd, are hated.
To taking an action that could make life even worse. Psychologists call this "loss aversion." Research in cognitive
Sometimes we hate the things we're afraid of.
The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive
But you know I am not of the "afraid" kind. I am not boasting. That is a characteristic, not a quality. One is afraid or one is not. It happens that I am not.
Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.
From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.
strangely ambivalent about
psychological reactance.
Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
Love is beautiful fear.
From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
A person with a poor mind set is always afraid to take risk.
Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence; the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence.
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
Fear is not one of my attributes.
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
I like cautious people. They are like me. Not that I like me.
A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.
Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.
Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later
I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.
I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.
The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.
I know I can be very standoffish.
At first I thought it was a fear of failure. Now I think you're afraid to succeed.
Fear isn't in my vocabulary.
Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.
Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.
I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
Every virtue can come with its own accompanying vice. The virtue of reticence can yield the vice of aloofness.
Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.
A Coy Aversion
...a flutter
too shy
to be seen...
Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy
People kill for me or die to defend me
I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.
A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.
Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?
Scholastics called the "irascible" (averting) and "concupiscible" (attracting) emotions.
Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.
I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course. - Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.
Fear was a solipsist, a narcissist, blind to everything except itself.
The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They
I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.
The Gift of Fear.
Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.
Procrastination and fear are close cousins.
The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.
Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.
Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it
Senses disabled by fear.
Everyone is afraid of something, right?" The
I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that's a phobia but also a habit.
It may seem strange, but I have an aversion to people trying to kill me. It sparks this almost unconscious desire to do something about it. It also sets fire to my desire to survive.
One is always half mad when one is shy of people.
I'm pretty neurotic.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.
To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong
or else a coward. I'm neither.
insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about
I am. selfish. I am brave. I am
Divergent.
My Fear of not being liked or loved would tell me to tolerate things in some of my relationships with others that should not have been tolerated.
Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a high degree of pleasure.
Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.
It is fear that I am most afraid of.
I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.
Fear didn't suit me.
I'm afraid of animals.
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.
I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere. ORONTE
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.