- Enoch Oyedibu
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Fear has both negative and positive parts to itself. But many times humans usually allow the negative part of it to thrive, plaguing their minds and shattering their hearts, destroying their belief systems, luring them to make-believe realities of vulnerability. Yet, in a real sense, it is not.
There is no such thing as being fearless, instead, what is constant is the ability to squash, submerge and conquer fear whenever it arrives. Fear is constant and it is a normal phenomenon in human life. At times, fear can be a driving force for growth but many have believed it is a deleterious sign of a failed man or woman.
When confronted with new things; surprises, fascinating experiences, nostalgia or family travails; anything new to our cells, fear plead to engulf hearts—seeking a place to hide, sneaking down our heart of hearts, and trying to convince, the same individual that once conquered the world, to believing not having the ability to lift a tiny stone, speak up in that seminar, cannot recite that poem, cannot read aloud without a script or slurring, or cannot hit that weightless ball. Fear. It always dashes our hopes, leaving things to get worse; sending everything to take a blink of eternal snooze—shame—then dies off. Gone!
This has always been the rudiments of about 80% of an average man-on-the-street life; leading nearly everyone to believe they’re ever vulnerable to fear and nothing can be done about it. But this is one of the fallacious statements, ever-lived and this article sees it as unacceptable.
Though fear is constant, it is not part of the weaknesses of humans. It can only be, when it is permitted. As it is famously said, “no one can make anyone inferior without their consent.” This means that whatever manifests in an individual life is only what such an individual permits. If one does not permit fear, it will not stay even when it keeps staring at one’s face. Many times, fear can be that electrifying, yet dangerous feeling, having the power to caution one where necessary; helping one to discern in the feat of decision making yet tries to emotionally grip the heart with an overprotective and overpowering aura of anxiety, especially when it is not controlled. It comes with both positivity and negativity. But many times humans usually allow the negative part of it to thrive, plaguing their minds and shattering their hearts, destroying their belief systems, luring them to make-believe realities of vulnerability. Yet, in a real sense, it is not.
Fear is just an emotion and humans are meant to have an excellent control of all their emotions, so fear must be autonomously controlled. As much as it is inseparable in human life, it must not be let go to drive the course of one’s life. For whenever fear is actively and properly controlled, an exceptional feat is often attainable.
Meanwhile, forgetting those involuntary actions of humans that occur at will, every emotion must be put in check alongside with the conquering spirit of fear. This is to ensure that one is not swung wastefully, hither and thither the catastrophic bridge of fear whenever it kicks. Focus and a state of stillness are all what are needed, when fear comes. Following are most important 30 inspiring quotes to lift one’s heart to stay focus and be still when fear stares bland:
1. “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
— Anais Nin
2. “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Bertrand Russell
4. “Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”
— Karl Augustus Menninger
5. “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”
— James F. Byrnes
6. “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
— Rudyard Kipling
7. “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
— James Stephens
8. “Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
— Herman Melville
9. “I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
— William Allen White
10. “Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.”
— Isa Upanishad, Hindu Scripture
11. “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
— Seneca
12. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”’
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “Where no hope is left, there is no fear.”
— Milton
14. “Laughter is poison to fear.”
— George R.R. Martin
15. “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”
— Japanese Proverb
16. “Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”
— Dale Carnegie
17. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”
— Henry Ford
18. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
19. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
— Helen Keller
20. “You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
— Eric Hoffer
21. “Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
22. “To overcome fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.”
— Peter McWilliams
23. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
— Marcus Aurelius
24. “Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”
— Arnold Glasow
25. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
— Anais Nin
26. “Fear defeats more people than any other thing in the world.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
— Aristotle
28. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
— Rosa Parks
29. “Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
30. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
— Joseph Campbell
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Enoch Oyedibu
I am a writer and investigative journalist who specialises in literary criticism and underrepresented narratives. Among other publications, I have been featured in Business Day Nigeria, TheICIR, Platform Times and Daily Nigerian. Right now, I work as a full-time staff writer for Unconventional Magazine.
