The way to overcome fear is simply to do what is right.

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We so want to be right and so trust that our desire to be right is something that God would surely bless. Yet the desire to be right comes with a price: the fear of...

Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?

It is acknowledged that father-daughter incest occurs on a large scale in the United States. Sexual abuse has now been included in child abuse legislation. A conservative estimate is that more than 1 million women...

On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its...

Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

No longer bound by fear, how high can we soar? How deep can we dive? How much delight can we experience? Yes, there will be sorrow too—it’s a part of the deal—but life gets the...

Mind sees ghost when frightened and hopeless.

The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I’m sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we...

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment – we are all defined by something we can’t...

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.

When you conquer fear, you unleash a greater power from within you.

To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our ‘EYE’ and Close our ‘I

And in those moments, Park thought about pulling back from her.”Not breaking up with her. That phrase didn’t even seem to apply here. Just . . . erasing away. Recovering the six inches between them

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual’s instinct for self preservation.

When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go...

When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears

Your will has to be stronger than your excuses. Your will has to be stronger than your fear.

You have done well,” Grandfather said. “We thank you.””We were afraid sometimes,” Jetsam replied.”Good.” Grandfather’s eyes smiled. “That means you had the courage to keep trying.

We are so scared of losing everything that doesn’t mean anything.

I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

It’s okay to be afraid, it means you have something to live for.

Confidence is being scared to death but getting the job done anyway.

[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios–the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about–was still...

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism

With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated

My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair – we rise and we shine, ’cause it’s like that’!

I guess everyone has a bird urge when they look down heights, a desire to jump, without wing or buoyant sail. Fear of heights is fear of a desire to jump.

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

Though sometimes when he wakes in the night all he can think about is death. His own death, of course, but also the death of those around him,the fact that one day in the not-too-distant...

Fear finds an excuse while faith finds a way.

I had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.

‎”What does it mean if i’m afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?” “No, it doesn’t mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to...

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God’s fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for ‘the bush was not consumed.

It will seem to many persons very inconsistent with their ideas of the dignity of a spirit that they should appear and act in the manner I have described, and shall describe further; and I...

You see yourself in the mirror and see the results, and you do not see the millions of shaping events that made you. You survived these challenges. There are millions more shaping events ahead of...

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

where there is never sunshine darkness isn’t a scary thing

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

The prison that exists in a man’s mind is far more difficult to escape from than anything built with brick walls and steel doors. For it is the fear of freedom that holds you inside…

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would...