Worrying paralyzes progress; prayer, preparation and persistence ensures it.

Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our...

Pay close attention. Listen carefully. Let’s look at what happens when fear is in charge. With fear in charge, you can never fully relax, let your guard down, be your true self. You can’t open...

Her eyes were those of someone who’s just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will...

I’ve met talespinners before, Jake, and they’re all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they’re afraid of life.

to me, the future doesn’t seem real. It’s just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don’t have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at right hundred miles per...

Sometimes, monsters are tired of sleeping under your bed, so they climb up into your head.

Probe deeply enough, under the slickest façade of confidence, and you tapped a vein of self-doubt or a hidden fear. Irrational fears and baseless doubts, many of them, but that was precisely why constant reassurance...

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Rachel rolled her eyes as she let out a breath, “I’ve been to support groups. I’ve done the “my name is” thing.” Rachel’s leg fell off the couch as she glared at Dr. Kean. “That’s...

So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what to fear – and what to ignore.

I talked to my nephew today, he’s afraid of the dark. Or was. I said, “Why are you afraid of the dark? In the darkness we find many beautiful things!” He said, “Like what?” And...

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

We are sorry about the way things turned out. We gave, in the phrasing of our words if not literally in the words themselves, the false impression that these pages might hold some small fragment,...

I don’t want your love. I want the same love you want. I don’t want your love. I want what you want & we can find It together & share our deepening experience of It….I...

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

Don’t be afraid,” Elisha answered, “We have more on our side than they have on theirs.” (2 Kings 6:15 GNT)

Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?

Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.

All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had...

Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

It’s scary, but I won’t let fear stop me.

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...

We are not here to fear, we are here to hope and dreams to win the world.

Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your...

Fearlessness is an accounting trick. You feel the fear; you just defer it. I could stand on the cliff immobile, feeling terrified, or I could leap and feel the terror while falling.

Love is stronger than fear.

For I’m afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don’t mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean...

Like my loved one, I am convinced that we all have critical conditions. Battles that we undertake behind the hospitals, in lonely alleys, secret locations and sometimes public places that are out of reach to...

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

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...

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

YOU FEAR TO DIE?”It’s not that I don’t want… I mean, I’ve always…it’s just that life is a habit that’s hard to break…

Have you ever stopped to consider the number of choices you make daily Paradoxically speaking, every time you have a choice to make and you don’t make it, by default, you are making a choice...

fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be...

She’s such a ballsy broad because she really doesn’t know any better. She has no fear, and you never know what’s going to come out of her mouth, so she’s never boring.

The true warrior isn’t immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.

That, and I really hate paying taxes.

Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society.

like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that,...

They fear Iraq is drifting from the Arabs, being divorced from the Arab world, and the increased influence of another neighboring country. This time, we are seeing some positive moves by the Arab League toward...

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

It was dark in the alley, and I was afraid I’d get mugged. Coffee also fears it’ll get mugged.

I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: “Uh, Fran? When I’m doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight feeling.”Fran was adjusting someone across...

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

It’s very hard to spin this story positively. My fear is this could drag on for months and months and months.