We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.