With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we can run. Mobility means security, both physically and emotionally. Flying...

Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity.

I didn’t like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it – I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank....

Andy was the part of me they could never lock up, the part of me that will rejoice when the gates finally open for me and I walk out in my cheap suit with my...

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it’s true, but you haven’t told anyone yet.

The best way to avoid being confused about Bruce Jenner is get your head out of his bedroom and closet, and then think about all of the things you’ve been hiding and been miserable about....

Life is like butter – when things cool down it can be reshaped

But sometimes, when she’d be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she’d be afraid of her own shadow following her…

‎”You shouldn’t feel so bad about being afraid of so many things.” “Why not?” “Because if you weren’t afraid never ever, then you couldn’t be brave never ever.

For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks...

The root of all fear is imagination.

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world,” he says softly.

It was, however, time to accept fear for what it was, an emotion that was preventing them from being who they needed to be.

Something Simon composed years ago is playing on someone else’s personal headphones; it’s a man sat opposite him in the waiting room. He believes the man is destroying his piece by reading a car magazine...

When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

There is nothing to fear but to fear the fear itself

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

A Native American boy was talking with his grandfather. “What do you think about the world situation?” he asked. The grandfather replied, “I feel like two wolves are fighting in my heart. One is full...

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn’t trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don’t want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.

He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game.

The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.

Dare to dream and dare to stand out. Get off the beaten path.

right” because I can predict crazy because I have been trained in the unpredictable nature of consistent craziness because I am crazy.

Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the...

The point of departure is a lack of explanations.

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME”~ Old Wrinkly

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin’ up anyway.

One retired pastor, who felt that he was being called to write a book about homosexuality, interviewed me. He said he wanted his book to be pastorally compassionate toward gay people while exhorting the church...

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Not everyone wants this conventional little life you’re rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it’s time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy...

Angst ist der Schlüssel zum Erfolg und der Hauptgrund für dein Scheitern, Angst ist das zugrunde liegende Dilemma in jeder Geschihte, die du dir über dich selbst erzählst. Und was ist die einzige Chance, die...

This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.

If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price.

I think locality exercises strange influence over some minds. The peaceful meadow-scenery holds no lurking horrors in its bosom, but in the lonesome moorlands, full of curiously molded boulders, grotesque fancies must assail one there....

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.

Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don’t know what’s out there, yet you know...

Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.

We had some fear that this might happen.

On your track to success, never forget that you are crossing many rivers. Yes you are! And each of those rivers contain crocodiles that may attempt to intimidate you. Never be afraid; sail on and...

…for everyone there is something unendurable – something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and cowardice are not involved. If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope. If...

I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: ‘Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it’s about time you showed up around here.’I wanted to...

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you’ll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Baimė kerta giliau nei kalavijas.

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

Fear drains us, while love empowers us.

Can’t figure women. Sometimes they’re afraid of a spider, other times they’re not afraid to stand right up to the devil.