He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

[Fear] can be a pleasure to look at, and I understand how some other humans love to experience his essence. We can sense beauty, even if we don’t see it.

Darkness gives free rein to the mind’s worst imaginings

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn’t mean you’re fearless....

Everybody’s scared, but if you don’t let your fears stop you, that’s bravery.

And that fear I’d felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the ordinary world- watching CNN, reading the Times, walking to Sant Ambroeus to have...

The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

Caring for someone is scary […] But you can’t fear dictate your life […] Don’t live life hiding behind your past, live right now. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you...

What if the only thing that’s standing between us right now is our fear?

So they can feel alive,” Scatty said.

I’d suffocate. From my own cowardice.

There is a rational part of my brain and it says, Don’t zap them, Warren. Ask questions first, find out who they are and why they’re here, on your doorstep, lurking, banging. Find out their...

I’m not going anywhere,” she told me that night. But until we are old ladies–a cypress age, a Sawtooth age–I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of...

Those who mastered in the art of falling have no fear of rising!

Every day is a grand adventure into the great unknown and you cannot know what lies around the next corner. So, standing in this place, with the unknown before you, you have only two choices:...

What is society but an individual? […] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean...

Everybody knows that. The missing step is always the next.

There is no greater despair, than to tread with care upon ice that is already broken

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do...

A finger beckons.My choice is to turn away.It is a mistake.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

One factor that makes human being reluctant to have hope is the fear of disappointment.Do not be afraid of disappointment! The more you afraid of it, the smaller your expectation.Face and overcome the disappointment, even...

Good.I need you to be scared.Very,very scared.And then you’ll never be scared again.

Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness has been...

Tonight his father had caught up, carrying all the horrors of hell with him. His mother could no longer protect him—hide him—and now his father‟s wrath would fall on him. He ran across the fields...

Being afraid does not define your character, but what you do in the face of fear does.

Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad to comply with his request to give him my impression.The work is a...

Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible.

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where...

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation – from fear, shame, guilt and judgement – was finally possible.

Lift your eyes, straighten your back, let fear and pain walk away like the turtles they are.

Now, in the clear light of an accepted duty, he felt fear indeed, but with it a sober sense of confidence in himself and in the world, and even an element of pleasure. It was...

Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and...

The fearful have lost faith while the fearless allow faith to lead the way.

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won’t grow beyond your current self.

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the...

I’m a little worried… Brave New World seems a bit more real everyday. . .

The most risky liability of your life is ‘the unspoken truth’.

Only weak resist change, brave go ahead and accept it.

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group...

That’s when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn’t bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn’t any such thing...

What you cannot imagine, you cannot fear.

Don’t waste that on me, Tess.