Now that I’ve found you, it scares me witless to think of anything happening. To you. I’m not used to being… afraid.” A sudden realization came to her, “So this is love,” she said quietly....

She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

He hath never failed thee yet.Never will His love forget.O fret not thyself nor letThy heart be troubled,Neither let it be afraid.

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions – but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.

I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

It’s not about having an absence of fear, it’s about having dominance over it.

Do not fear, for I am with you – Isaiah 41:10

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Never be afraid to be sexy!

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear;...

People may not like you, but that’s cool because your heart doesn’t beat from their liking. You can’t live to please everyone, you’re not a puppet

So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

For there is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty. A person who is trying to eat money is always hungry. When someone says, “Time to...

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

My spine spoke to me; I felt vulnerable, like he was gradually covering me in a heavy layer of gold without even having to touch me.

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.

Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.

Fear, anger, jealousy, hatred of self and others are the outcomes of the lack of connectivity with your inner self. Connecting with your inner self and awakening your inner sensuality is not a luxury anymore,...

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

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...

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of...

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

With addiction, a client’s fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana —the fear of Fear itself.

I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point...

I’m not givin’ in an inch to fear.

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.

To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.

there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils–the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one’s actions.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

When I was small I dreamed of demons. I thought they were under my bed, but you said, it can’t be so, you don’t get demons our side of the river, the guards won’t let...

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

Animals store their fears and at times OUR fears in the body and manifest physical illnesses like we do. Like us, these fears may have occurred in infancy and are still carried in the adult...

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else’s snakes can ever be as awful.

This century will be called Darwin’s century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write...

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with...

Lack of courage is what makes big dreams to sit in the ink of the paper instead of them running in the shoes of actions. Without courage, you remain a dreamer!

you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It’s like wet grass, tons of it soaked in mud. It’s warm and it stinks like shit and it’s...

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

I would like to be able to say that I came back from this by just simply getting up from the sofa and rolling up my sleeves… but I didn’t. I could not even take...

I went to a gun range and shot a man made out of paper. That paper man must have had a brother, and I fear one day that paper man’s brother is going to shoot...

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty,...