We hold onto our flaws because they are insurance for our failures. Every fear serves a purpose. When we cling to unhelpful beliefs and old fears, we can blame failure on them. Growth requires the courage to give our best effort and not blame our flaws as the cause of failure.

When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

Fear is afraid of you. Don’t think so? Walk right up to it, then right past it and see if it doesn’t run and hide.

It’s funny how those we care about can create the same reaction that we get when we are facing down a monster ready to kill us.

Remember, Reilly, gossip is just people’s insecurity and fear of what they don’t really understand,” Eilam said. “It is unconsciously propagated to feed their egos.” “Doesn’t it ever bother you?”, Reilly asked as he pulled the top off his yogurt. “I’ve lived too long to put any stock in the external judgments of others,or to...

Here’s a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

An observant friend will recognize the signs of the rise of grief: eyes that easily well with tears, a smile that is difficult to sustain, a tendency to withdraw. And ultimately, perhaps we each need to create our own symbol of grieving — to wear our version of black, or maybe to color with black...

Worrying about scarcity is our culture’s version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we’ve been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we’re angry and scared and at each other’s throats.

Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him not as you but as one of them.

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don’t consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here’s a few clues that you’re a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2) You post threats to someone.(3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts.(4) You post any information intended to harm or...

In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat and defend themselves. The very structure of trauma, including activation, dissociation and freezing are based on the evolution of survival behaviors. When threatened or injured, all animals draw from a “library” of possible...

and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are still afraidSo it is better to speakrememberingwe were never meant to survive

Your decisions can be shallow or extreme, what matters is, if you stick to them or not.

Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.

I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else in my or the next ten governesses’ acquaintances, but that will not prevent me from speaking! I may not be as wise as you in the ways of the world, I...

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens.

Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.

Thursday, the-night-of-the-date, comes and goes, leaving a school bus tire track across Desi’s heart, fear abrading her mind until she can think of nothing except what the future will be like if something develops between her dad and Libby.

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

La gente tiene miedo, teme por su seguridad y la de los suyos. Y está dispuesta a renunciar a cualquier cosa, incluso a su propia libertad, con tal de que alguien se la garantice.

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

In the darkness, fear my light.

Well, see, I think it’s that most people don’t like that lonely feeling. People don’t like looking up and feeling small or lost. That’s what I think prayer is all about. It doesn’t matter which stories they believe in, they’re all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like...

Control doesn’t validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

Howard: Sometimes a betrayal can be so subtle that it clouds the whole thing.Nita: It would have to be a real betrayal. Not like canceling an appointment. It would be like you’d end the relationship in the middle.Howard: Why would I call it off?Nita: I don’t know!

The devil’s happy when the critics run you off.

As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear.It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the Voltaires, Humes, Paines, Humboldts, Tyndalls, Haeckels, Darwins, Spencers, and Drapers,...

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel.

Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world.

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always enjoyed feeling afraid. I think it is the most delicious feeling there is

Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever is designed against us will work for us!

Always remember the acronym for “FEAR” can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover.

Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don’t need her hands to convince me the world I can’t see from under my blanket is real. I need her hands to do more than her words. Convince me...

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

Things can be fixed. Relationship CANNOT.Its like standing on a cracked glass plane, you might just adjust yourself for the time being but there will always be a fear of increasing the cracks, fear of falling through, fear of being destroyed.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

I wouldn’t give a tinker’s damn for a man who isn’t sometimes afraid. Fear’s the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

status quo” on the other, they are often in balance. Change is hard. We tend to accept our condition and no matter how painful, we will not change until the balancing scale is tipped – only when the discomfort becomes greater than the fear of change does the scale tip.

Combat” McCloud. Fear my thunder! Love my chicken tenders.