A Quote by Richard Ford

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

Richard Ford

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Richard Ford
American - Novelist
Born: February 16, 1944

I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

Dolly Parton

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

Joseph Conrad

Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.

Tara Brach

Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

Carl Sandburg

We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.

Michael Morpurgo

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

Catherynne M. Valente

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

Karen Marie Moning

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

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

Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

Pema Chodron

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.

Robert Graves

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

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

Winston Churchill

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