With no one to fear him, it seemed at times as if he didn’t exist at all.

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure....

I am the Mountain Climber of Love. I should mention that I’m deathly afraid of heights.

When we find ourselves in a situation in which our buttons are being pushed, we can choose to repress or act out, or we can choose to practice. If we can start to do the...

Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and thepessimist fears this is true.

Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead,...

Sometimes, for revenge to be as sweet and painful as it is intended, some time has to pass. Time enough that people have forgotten about past hurts and humiliations. Time enough to make the poison...

One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.

You can either choose to walk in light and love, or run in fear and darkness. But with the latter, you’re more likely to fall.

My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.

Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long as you experience fear or pain with a memory or flashback, there is a lie attached that needs to be confronted. In each healing step, there is...

The recognition of his carelessness filled Mr. Lecky with fear and anger. In the dusk his eerie heart could anticipate the hours of terror which he had laid up for himself. Sounds, real or imaginary,...

My unique path through life has led me, however, to fear known threats but seldom the unknown, while most people fear both.

Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.”Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her...

The trick is to ride the wave,Fast, wide-open and in deep Now-magic.Free, burning fear for fuelGenerous, knowing there is always more where that came from.Cresting, spray of liquid jewels hanging, shining in the sun and...

There’s no fear that there’s a wider problem. The report has been completed. We will be, at some point, giving it to Congress. We’re satisfied with the results of it. The players that were named...

Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.

You must be fearless to take the path less traveled.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.

Fear is taught to you, not love for love is who you are.

Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy

When in doubt, seek guidance from God.

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

Fear can’t hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it’s a snake with no venom.

I lost something after Hailey died. I’m not sure what to call it, but it’s the device that stops ypu from telling the truth when people ask you how you’re doing, that vital valve that...

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don’t have to be ashamed.

You must burn. Burn higher. Burn for everything you have ever wanted. For everything you have ever lost, for every crack in your heart and every fraction of every irreplaceable moment. Burn high for love....

Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.

You can’t be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it’s the fear that’ll freeze you in place.

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

That’s the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

Today is yesterday’s victory, yesterday is tomorrow’s conquest, and tomorrow is today’s war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

My fear, until we locate them, is that they’re still in the building.

…but fear of death gives us strength.

The first step is the hardest in every journey of dreams. There is nothing else to fear unto whosoever has shown the tenacity to begin; because, once having started, the hardest part of the mission...

{From Lindsey’s address at the funeral of renowned scientist Luther Burbank. Burbank was one of the most beloved people in the early 20th century due to his countless contributions to humanity, but when, in an...

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

Fear is very simple – it is the absence of love.

You don’t know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

I’m going to fuck you up until your mother bleeds.

If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself...

Security is of the world, insecurity is of the divine.

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure...

Duality”. There is no moral value judgment applied in their perceptions. The moral value judgment continually creates an illusion of separation and disconnection. A balanced consciousness, with no dual perception is very integrative and all...

Even fear afraid of faith.

Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.

Fear is contagious. Fortunately, so is courage. Learning to become fearless will touch everyone around you, and best of all, you’ll find it’s a gift that keeps on giving.

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.