{"quotes":[{"text":"Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","fear","fundamentalism","human-behavior","human-mind","human-nature","inspirational","inspiring","islam","islamophobia","jihad","motivational","muslims","philosophy","phobia","primitive-human-behavior","quran","religious-terrorism","terrorism","truth"],"id":3452,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["beat-fear","explore-fears","fear","fearless","overcome-fear","overcome-fears","phobia","phobias","stephen-richards"],"id":10415,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"The fear of failure is a liability.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["failure","fear","fear-of-failure","phobia"],"id":33323,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we can run. Mobility means security, both physically and emotionally. Flying takes away our most basic way of regulating feelings.","author":"Capt Tom Bunn LCSW","tags":["aerophobia","fear","flying","phobia","travel"],"id":65528,"author_id":"Capt+Tom+Bunn+LCSW"},{"text":"Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.","author":"Suzette Boon","tags":["angry","chaos","conflict","cycles","dissociation","dissociative-identity-disorder","fear","inner-conflict","phobia","rage","shame","trauma"],"id":69458,"author_id":"Suzette+Boon"},{"text":"In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["entertainment","fear","fiction","phobia","predictability","reality","unpredictability","unpredictability-of-life"],"id":80281,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["fear","fearless","overcome-fear","overcoming-fears","phobia","phobias","stephen-richards"],"id":98601,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["compassion","human-behavior","inspirational","inspiring","islam","islamophobia","love","motivational","muslims","neuropsychology","neuroscience","philosophy","phobia","psychology","truth","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":106103,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["fear","historian","history","phobia","prophet","risk"],"id":115262,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I had to stop him from arresting an old lady who let her dog urinate against the fire hydrant that was in front of Burgerville headquarters.'You'll blow our cover.'But what if there is a fire?'The fire department will come and put it out,' I said.'With what?'Water,' I said.'Not from that hydrant,' Monk said. 'It's inoperable.'No, it's not,' I said. 'It can still be used.'There is urine all over it,' Monk said. 'no fireman would dare touch it, nor would any other human being.'Firefighters run into burning buildings,' I said.'They aren't going to care about some dog pee on a fire hydrant.'They would if they knew,' Monk said. 'We should call and warn them. Call Joe right now. He can get the word out faster than we can.'Every fire hydrant in the city has dog pee on it, Mr. Monk. It's how dogs mark their territory. I can guarantee you that every male dog that has passed that hydrant has pissed on it.'He looked at me, wide eyed, 'No.'It's what dogs do,' I said. 'The firefighters knows this.'Monk swallowed hard. 'And they still use the hydrants?'Of course they do.'They are the bravest men on earth,' Monk said solemnly.","author":"Lee Goldberg","tags":["bravery","canine-behavior","cleanliness","dogs","fire-fighting","fire-hydrant","firefighters","firemen","germs","job-hazards","obsessive-compulsive-disorder","ocd","pee","phobia","urine"],"id":143055,"author_id":"Lee+Goldberg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}