Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don’t care to know before they surrender!

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope

When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that...

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

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...

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

I have not always chosen the safest path. I’ve made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I’ve learned something important along the way: I’ve...

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the...

Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

In times like these I always cheered myself up with a certain story. I forgot just when I first heard it, or who I heard it from… but, back when I was young it would...

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not fear of what is bad.

In our global community, when a woman becomes an authoritative figure- it scares the world. She is no longer giving into traditional patriarchal notions of submissiveness, she does not require validation, and subsequently she becomes...

What is love?”; “The total absence of fear,” said the Master; “What is it we fear?”; “Love,” said the Master.

Most fear what they dont know and think they know everything

The magic rarely happens within our comfort zone, but outside it, on the ragged, scary edge, where we have to fight like hell to keep from drowning in the unknown.

I’m a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.

Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

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.

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

In this one life, this one life that you have to live, you must embrace every moment that creeps into your existence. You must feel every possible emotion to realize you’re really alive, you’re really...

Fear of vikings build castles.

Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven’t stepped into the life you dreamed of.

I remember feeling the silence. I remember feeling the fear. I’m like, ‘This could be a wrap.’ And that’s what the silence was. It was like, ‘This could really be a wrap for you.’

I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it...

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.

I chase my dreams through nightmares.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

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

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

A person who is motivated by love will make completely different choices than a person who is motivated by fear. Those choices will result in completely different actions. Those actions will result in completely different...

Knowledge dispels fear.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

Fear builds walls instead of bridges. I want a life of bridges, not walls.

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

you are about to leave a known world where all the things you always wanted and all that you have fought so hard for are kept.”The Warrior smiles, because nothing can frighten him and nothing...

You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.

Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and to acquire skills and aptitudes for dealing with the situations that threaten to overwhelm it… Usually, that child...

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To...

Timendi causa est nescire – Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Whether you seek the prettiest rose despite the size of its thorns or praise a mediocre plant for the sake of its thorns, the plant’s beauty remains subjective.

When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw some of those Indians for the first time; we got directions from them...

Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.

A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

I did it,” I gasp, still reeling from the thrill and the fear. “I really-” Quince’s mouth is on mine in an instant. His arms around my waist, mine around his neck. It’s the fear,...

Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God’s perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him.