To change your life, you need to become aware of yourself

Unfortunately, what has precipitated this decline is a real fear of interest rates rising. Personally and professionally, I think interest rates go a little higher than most people expect and until that happens, until we...

Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Fear and self-doubt are the greatest killers of personal genius.

We react to fear when we are uncertain of the outcome, we respond to fear when we don’t care about the outcome.

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant...

Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding he’s going to scale Kilimanjaro because he can’t stop imagining the view from the top, the...

Nico remembered something Jason Grace had told him in the palace of Notus: Maybe it’s time you come out of the shadows. If only I could, he thought. For the first time in his life,...

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

Something like panic struck at Hurlow. Moffat’s calm confession of fear withdrew the prop upon which he had leaned. Down there, among the motionless shadows, lurked invisible things, things that were nameless, shapeless and malignant;...

He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

I love you, I thought. But I didn’t say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one—...

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…” he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, “Revenge.

No Child of YoursI saw a child hide in the cornerSo I went and asked her nameShe was so naive and so petiteWith such a tiny frame. ‘No one,’ she replied, that’s what I am...

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence–...

Don’t you see? You can’t be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.

It’s not that I mind being alone, not really. I can distract myself with silly fantasies and daydreams for hours, but in the end it always comes back to me. That’s what I’m left with:...

I am more than the sum of my fear.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

As I feel less overwhelmed, my fear softens and begins to subside. I feel a flicker of hope, then a rolling wave of fiery rage. My body continues to shake and tremble. It is alternately...

We will not read of that which hurts our pride or fears or ‘feelings’. We forget, or gloss over, or excuse, an experience which injured the tentacles of our personality. We forget the pscyhiatrist’s definition...

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

Everything is worse…if you think something is looking at you.

We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price of safety. That was the bargain we made with the devil we knew...

Fear, jealousy and anger are manifestations of a lack of being in love. Being in love is possible only when you are in love with yourslef first. Self-love is an inborn quality that has been...

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and...

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

Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of war,The voice of one who went before,But most of all the mirror’s gaze,Which counts us out...

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

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn’t hide. You didn’t wait for the perfect moment to settle on...

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.

Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented...

Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok’st; yet grossly fear’stThy death, which is no more.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

Don’t be afraid of the dark. Shine!

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, ‘God’s will is my delight.

My nightmare fear is some congressman is going to seize on this and they’re going to pass some laws, … I can just see people overreacting and doing things that would invade people’s privacy or...

The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.

I know it’s painful growing,I bet the changes was painful too.But nothing is as painful as being somewhere you don’t belong. Obviously.

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

self-pitying” for long years now and things don’t seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming” and you’ll see things taking a better shape!

…having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.