White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black...

He pulled my skirt up. I began to worry. Everyone knew he had broken in girls before and I didn’t want it to happen to me. I said, ‘No. Get off, please.’ He pulled me down the alley and pushed me to the ground. As I lay on my back worrying about my new blue...

It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.

Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for...

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said “DoloresI live in fearMy love for you’s so overpoweringI’m afraid that I will disappear

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more...

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer… Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse...

Rocco was gripped with the panic he often experienced around her, around himself. He seemed to be both here now and simultaneously five years in the future looking back at this moment, at the loss of this moment. He was always sliding past the nowness of being with her, throwing himself at her like a...

I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.

Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears – real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn’t need to be rational or even real to be potent.

fear doesn’t listen to reason it takes it own counsel

Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth.

Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

I have more fear in me than I have faith, blood and soul. I fear the past and I fear the future and it makes my existence in the present moment violently fragile.

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

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle.

if it was meant to be, it will be”, is a pacifying, yet harmful quote, that many spiritualists use to soften the blow of anger. God is not passive. He is relentless, and he will build you through fire. He will put in your heart a need for answers. The intensity of what bothers your...

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.

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

It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels in their heart on a daily basis. It is realizing that you are coping and not living. It is the false belief that there is a verse, quote, phrase or talk that will...

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren’t afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life’s purpose.

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

My biggest fear is to loose my closed ones. And I never want to face it.

As mãos dela agarraram-lhe a camisa, apertando-a fortemente entre os dedos. O desespero que demonstrava assustou-o. – Cecília! – aquela voz soou como um trovão. Laerte viu os olhos dela arregalarem ao mesmo tempo que apressadamente lhe soltava a camisa.

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear, or what they want to believe because of their emotional investment in the situation. Instead of circling the drain with...

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime’s independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don’t want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want...

When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down with the ship. I will not be guilty of the ineffable meanness of paddling away in some orthodox canoe. I...

I have heard them preach, when I sat in the pew and my feet did not touch the floor, about the final home of the unconverted. In order to impress upon the children the length of time they would probably stay if they settled in that country, the preacher would frequently give us the following...

If you don’t stop fear, fear will stop you. Somebody’s gotta stop. My advice? Don’t let it be you. Whatever IT is. Do IT afraid

Some people are really sentimental mostly those people struggle pain in relationship.”And that time infatuation turn to fear..and over thinking like;Its so sad.Is it getting failed?Should i better off alone?I’m so confused.I learn that;”Deep emotional depends on how much you loved the person and value relation.

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child’s eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

While this certainly sounds dramatic, we fear it may not be enough. Unless the Big Three break their pattern of deflation and market share losses, it is likely that each of them will experience reductions in profitability despite their restructuring effort.

Either way, one should love their children, shouldn’t they? After all, children are only duplicates of your own genes. What did these children ever ask for? They wanted love, family, and support. But WE kicked them out onto streets like animals just because WE, as adults, were scared of a situation WE weren’t used to.

When someone reacts violently and aggressively, it only goes to demonstrate the lack of truth, trust and confidence in oneself and issue that we are defending. It rather portrays the guilt, shame and self anger for defending the indefensible.

Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do.

The forest has shrunkAnd fear has expanded,The forests have dwindled,There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning,less beautyand the moon lies bare,deflowered by force andthen abandoned.

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

What stands between soulful, spiritual, and successful you is the wall of self assumed and society induced fears. Kill the fear with the fountain of love that is there within you. Being love is the best way to overcome fear.

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.

Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.