A Quote by Ovid

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

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Ovid
Roman - Poet
43 BC - 17 AD

We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.

Dalai Lama

The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The

John Bunyan

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

Laozi

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

Laozi

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Earl Wilson

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Ovid

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

Bertrand Russell

There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.

Karen Marie Moning

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

Voltaire

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.

George Herbert

The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.

Thomas More

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

Baruch Spinoza

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