Henry David Thoreau

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

The heart is forever inexperienced.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Fear is primarily a creation of the mind. I create it in my mind-it doesn’t really exist outside the mind. I can dissolve it there as well. – John Mackey

Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.

There is only one universal passion fear.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

There’s an old German proverb to the effect that fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,and that is true.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.