Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not...

Ritual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance...

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.

There’s magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it – that’s your ego letting go.

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because...

People who live life in fear of taking risks die without living it.

They don’t have classes on bravery in middle school. If they did I’d have signed up. It would have been helpful to learn how to stare down what I feared most and not blink.

I’m starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to?

Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire. […] Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your...

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you’ll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the...

Cowardice is when you hide away from your real self, and wear another self in pretense. Be yourself; that is bravery. If yourself is not better for you to be, change yourself and live in...

Outside the rain began to pour in sheets, and the wind howled . Giant pieces of hail began to pelt the building— banging off the skylights so hard that Simpson worried the glass might shatter....

Sheer, unadulterated fear?

Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare.

There’s fear and violence under the surface. One always follows the other.

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

The Cause that caused a Fear need not appear again. There for not fear about Fear.

Being strong is not the same as being a strong being. I should know because cowardice runs in my family, as I always run from my fears.

The car drives through, stops while the man closes and fastens the prickly gate behind it. The bell shuts off; the stillness is deafening by contrast. The car goes on until the outline of a...

Positive results are always inevitable when you refuse to live a life of fears, doubts, excuses, blames and procrastinations.

Ricky just listens. He isn’t shocked. He isn’t surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me....

I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there...

If you live in fear, fear will live in you.

Every decision I have made – from changing jobs, to changing partners, to changing homes – has been taken with trepidation. I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control...

My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear...

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

The wounds were hard to heal, and once they did heal, they left behind the ugly reminder of the scars, those little cracks where fear enjoyed building its den.

I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he...

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.

He who fears a positive purposeful change fears growth.

I dunno, but I wish I hadn’t.

Don’t be scared,” Willa Mae said.I looked at her. “Aren’t you scared?”Willa Mae looked at me and said, “Shoot. Only thing I’m afraid of is that I’m going to do something I’ll regret.””Being scared is...

Life is game. Never fear to play the game.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

If you’re afraid to be alone, you are alone.

Fear can be a potent aphrodisiac.

We must live with our hearts in our hands – like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.

If you hold back for fear of making a mistake you will never accomplish what you must.And with each challenge you will become stronger.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?

Right now, I’m living like a piano is going to come plummeting from the sky any second, and I don’t know when. So it’s always like, this is it. This is all you’ve got left.

I can’t do small talk really, and that’s fine. I’ve got old friends and family that love me, thank God. I’m grateful for what a city gives you access to, but I do feel that...

My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever seeing the...

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a...

We all wear masksto veil the truth.Truth is nakedness.Truth is fear.Truth is the gardener making you sit on his lapasking you tolight his cigarette.Truth is father— with a limp cigarette on his lips —telling you...