A fearful man is always hearing things.
SOPHOCLES
SOPHOCLES
More from Sophocles
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SophoclesSophocles How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
SophoclesSophocles Without labor nothing prospers.
SophoclesSophocles Despair often breeds disease.
SophoclesSophocles Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SophoclesSophocles It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
SophoclesSophocles Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
SophoclesSophocles Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
SophoclesSophocles All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
SophoclesSophocles Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
SophoclesSophocles If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
SophoclesSophocles Love, you mock us for your sport.
SophoclesSophocles Kindness begets kindness evermore.
SophoclesSophocles Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SophoclesSophocles The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SophoclesSophocles Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on fear
Basically it’s like this, sometimes you have to tell fear to gently fuck off.
Amy Turn SharpAmy Turn Sharp Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
Steven PressfieldSteven Pressfield Fear creates space for creativity. Love creates space for healing.
Alyce TaylorAlyce Taylor Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
Henri NouwenHenri Nouwen Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
J. C. RyleJ. C. Ryle I now go beyond other people’s fears and limitations. I create my life.
Louise HayLouise Hay Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot