Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.

Don't be afraid," i murmured. "We belong together.

The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasn't allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

I am never afraid of what I know.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.

It's better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.