People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can’t help wanting. You can’t be afraid.

Fear, anxiety, arousal, and pain; all are emotions and sensations. They are neither right, nor are they wrong; good nor bad. They are simply passions, a most important part of life. Feel them, fully experience...

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

There are two forces in the universe: fear and love. Trust is part of love because it makes you feel safe, and it is only in this state that you are capable of love.

…I’m shy in person – so afraid to confess my love – I need a go-between – our mutual friend, the Moon…

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because...

There is a fantastic spirit in the camp and we have no fear about Saturday,

But of all the women, Éowyn is the strongest, quite frankly, because of her weakness: she’s only human. She has no special powers, no immortality, only her innate grit and drive to be something more...

If you don’t learn how to be scared, you’ll never really learn how to be brave.

Truth is, I don’t know what Deacon wants anymore – it’s not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I’m the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted...

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

In a world of increasing complexity, the simple man walks alone. Knowing his ways are not of the world. Refusing to complicate and confuse those things which he knows to be true. Love is that...

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Ah, Walker—if I could explain all of humanity’s foibles, I’d be a rich man indeed, at least as far as money goes. I believe people are like that because of fear. They fear being loved...

Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers

Dad, will they ever come back?””No. And yes.” Dad tucked away his harmonica. “No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they’ll come in next. But...

I learned much too late that what you called love was nothing but a desperate and irrational fear of a life lived alone.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks...

But human beings are like that, she thought. We’ve replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

You give me that. You hold that power and you can take it away.

If I’m afraid to fall then how will I ever fly?

Even death itself is made wretched by terror and fear.

The best way to get over your fear of meeting new people is to imagine them naked. Unless you’re networking at a nudist camp, then you may have to get more creative.

Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit

The next I’m standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I’m bleeding all over, hoping I don’t get arrested. It was completely crazy. But...

Be bold, don’t be boring.

A spring sun was shining on the rue St. Honore, as I ran down the church steps. On one corner stood a barrow full of yellow jonquils, pale violets from the Riviera, dark Russian violets,...

Now that I’ve found you, it scares me witless to think of anything happening. To you. I’m not used to being… afraid.” A sudden realization came to her, “So this is love,” she said quietly....

She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

He hath never failed thee yet.Never will His love forget.O fret not thyself nor letThy heart be troubled,Neither let it be afraid.

Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.

If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions – but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.

I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

It’s not about having an absence of fear, it’s about having dominance over it.

Do not fear, for I am with you – Isaiah 41:10

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Never be afraid to be sexy!

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear;...

People may not like you, but that’s cool because your heart doesn’t beat from their liking. You can’t live to please everyone, you’re not a puppet

So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

For there is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty. A person who is trying to eat money is always hungry. When someone says, “Time to...

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

My spine spoke to me; I felt vulnerable, like he was gradually covering me in a heavy layer of gold without even having to touch me.

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.