Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Live, let live, and help live

Fear is a useless emotion. Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility.

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

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

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

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

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

There is only one universal passion fear.

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.

Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.

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

My greatest fear is getting bored.

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

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.

I am pretty fearless. You know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.