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.

Downgrades outweigh upgrades and fear outweighs greed. This is not a market that can weather uncertainty and it’s been pretty brutal.

I don’t see a lot of fear. Certainly people hope that they’ll get it worked out.

Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting—not for the first time—on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that sleep would come, and their...

Sometimes you can’t speak, not because others won’t let you, but because you are afraid of what you’ll say.

…I bet I’ll haunt your dreams tonight. I just wan’ed to paint a picture in your head. I wan’ed you to see me as the monster I can often be. You see, you are what...

I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through,...

Don’t be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing”, said the Butterfly.

Fear separates–makes us feel alone–disconnected–while love–love does just the opposite–it unites. {shadowland}

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while...

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth,...

The greatest moral appeal of the doctrine of the Blank Slate comes from a simple mathematical fact: zero equals zero. This allows the Blank Slate to serve as a guarantor of political equality…[I]f we are...

I am afraid of the future; it seems to be a big box waiting for me.

The one who cries, is always the one who is in need.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

If Christ taught us anything it is this — not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.

It just goes to show you that anything that looks out of the ordinary is going to strike fear in people now.

You are afraid that she will change.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust’s reply was ‘To be separated from Mama.’) I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be...

[Robert’s eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll’s grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]The record of a generous life runs like a...

I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance...

My biggest fear is to loose my closed ones. And I never want to face it.

Peter opens his eyes and they are tearless and fierce, revealing a glimpse of his true self. Pure animalistic strength. There was never any fear for him to hide.

A coward talks to everyone but YOU.

How do you control another person? Two ways. Trust, or fear. People and animals will follow you if they trust you. But trust must be earned. And it is earned by people who are good...

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

I’d still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn’t happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the...

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in...