The only people who fear death are the ones who haven’t lived.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is...

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

Being afraid is the worst sin there is.

I was three inches taller but he could smell my fear.

Karrin.”She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow.”Remember what I said yesterday,” I said. “You’re hurt. But you’ll get through it. You’ll be okay.”She closed her eyes tightly. “I’m scared. So scared I’m...

Cancer. The word meant the same to me as tsunami or piranha. I had never seen them; I wasn’t even quite sure what they were, but I knew they were bad and I knew in...

He had a hungry look in his eyes and it frightened her.

Anyone who tries to put fear in a heart, has lost their heart to fear.

I looked up at him, rain blending into my tears, ”Michael listen! You told me once that when you thought of life, you thought of this big ship in the middle of the sea and...

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know...

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but...

Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.

My eyes in tearsHeart never sighsMy mind never fearsI conquer the lies

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can’t be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel?No one would answer that, because the cats had all been eaten.

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never...

I can feel him step close, then his hands lay on my shoulders, and they burn in the most delicious way, only reminding me how dangerous Benjamin is to me, to my soul. How fast...

Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies...

The best thing—in Shadow’s opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he’d plunged as low as he could plunge and he’d hit bottom. He didn’t...

In a world that operates at least 50 percent on fear, he was very confident,

Ah, Zora, you are so naive,” the fire fairy said with a hearty chuckle. “You have no idea what happened to them, do you? You have no clue as to what happened to your parents.

Never blame circumstances for your condition, you yourself are responsible for what you go through. If someone’s treating you bad, its your fault not theirs. If you are not satisfied with your life, its time...

Choice is the basis of every part of your existence, but so is fear. The difference is, choice creates movement, where fear limits movement.

It was any outcast’s nightmare.If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

Such a dark green, his eyes. They reminded her of the forest, of all the dangers lying dormant behind that verdant cloak of leaves.

He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked the latter, like leaves covering a snare. You didn’t notice the...

When we go online, we commit ourselves to the care of online mechanisms. Digital Band-Aids for digital wounds. We feed ourselves into machines, hoping some algorithm will digest the mess that is our experience into...

She was someone who heard each grain in the hour-glass, she felt the passing seconds like sandpaper against her softest skin. Time actually seemed to hurt her, and people helped her get through it. [..]...

I have always felt that fear possesses such great power, enough to paralyze and quake an individual. Pondering this, I realized that the source of fear’s power comes from within me. So, I ask myself,...

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!”

Senses disabled by fear.

Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close...

Your fear ain’t nothin but gum on the bottom of your shoe. The residue from some past experience is all it is. You can scrape the gum off or it can serve as a reminder...

I wrote when I was scared. It was all I knew to do- writing. It kept my fears firmly on the white paper before me rather than running loose around my head.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure will.

The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don’t become GREED.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true

Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going...

Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same...

Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn’t mean nothing when it came to fear.

We are already abundant, we have everything we need within us, to live a purposeful and fulfilling life.

Today you had a very important lesson on taking punches. A lot of people will tell you that the first thing you have to learn is how to take a punch. But I believe the...

The moment we confront our fears we are declaring that we are contenders for life, and for love.

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t...