Paulo Coelho Quotes

I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

There is nothing to fear as much as fear.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

I know a lot about fear in itself, and lived with fear a lot. Lived with anxiety a lot, lived with the things that - most human beings, at some stage in their lives, are going to live with these feelings.

How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

It’s not just what you eat that matters, it’s what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food, but if your body is filled with resentment, worry, fear, lust, guilt, anger, bitterness, or any other emotional disease, it’s going to shorten your life.

If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.

In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.