Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
– Epictetus
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- Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. – Margaret Atwood
- Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid. – Ray Bradbury
- I’m afraid of failing. I’m afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I’m afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes. – Victoria Aveyard
- We don’t have to be afraid of stepping out. We don’t have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God. – Jennifer L Lane
- I am not afraid of anything in the world. But I’m afraid of myself, afraid of what I will be in the future. – Luffina Lourduraj
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- Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point? – Dada Bhagwan
- The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating. – Anita Shreve
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- It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life. – Anthony Marais
- A moment can change the way you view the world, and the way you view the world will give you more moments. – Nikki Rowe
- Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. – Brooks Atkinson
- We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don’t view our faith through the eyes of culture. – Stephen D Livesday
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- You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. – Marcus Aurelius
- And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials. – Epictetus
- If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported. – Epictetus
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
- Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly – Sally Kempton
- Don’t we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few? – Tamora Pierce
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- Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore. – Marilyn Manson
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- Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you… – Walt Whitman
- I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid. – Maggie Stiefvater
- We are our choices.. That’s why I am so afraid to choose.. Because more than anything else, I am afraid of facing myself.. – Laarni Venus Marie Nillama