Guy de Maupassant Quotes

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Fear usually looks like anger.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.

The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless.

How did it make you feel?

In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Frustration is a function of our expectations.

Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.