Side Note: As a rule, people who are terrified of what others think about them are actually terrified of all the shitty things they think about themselves being reflected back at them.

people who are terrified of what others think about them are actually terrified of all the shitty things they think about themselves being reflected back at them.)

When I notice myself worrying about 'what other people will think,' I find I'm usually not worried about any single person's opinion.

If I pick a specific person, I'm rarely concerned about what they will think. What I fear is the collective opinion in my head. It's imaginary.

I did see what people were saying about me and I was terrified.

The biggest travesty in the world is people preventing and limiting themselves from expressing who they really are because they’re afraid of what other people think.

I think a have so much fear about speaking out or just having an opinion on something.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK

Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of
what people may think.
There is one answer
to worries like these:
people may think
what the devil they please.

What people are afraid of isn’t failure. It’s blame. Criticism.

I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think... Grow up & lose the fear.

We are what we fear in others

Today, fear of the truth is not a fear of the unknown, but a fear of something we know very well. People are afraid of themselves because they know who they are. p. 302

"The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will."

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.