Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You’ll find me there, staring out at you!

Only love can free us from fear. Fear causes us to cower in the shadows; Love allows us to dance in the sunlight.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

The journey I’m taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I’m seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

Henry,’ at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, ‘hast thou read Hoffman?”I should think so,’ said Henry.’What think you of him?”Why, that he writes admirably; and, moreover, what is more...

Lady Dance’s music wasn’t a magic charm. I’d misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn’t stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we...

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent –unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it –we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our...

I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store...

Que ceux qui n’ont jamais eu peur d’avoir un enfant anormal lèvent la main. Personne n’a levé la main. Tout le monde y pense, comme on pense à un tremblement de terre, comme on pense...

I really, really need some help and advice. I’m scared… I’m scared of my own home, of my own daughter!

Odessans’ worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?

Get scared later, and if you’re scared now remember what Kit always said. If you’re not scared, she told me, it’s not bravery. And you want to be brave, don’t you, Snicket?

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Fear can be a big motivator.

Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A...

Even in his sleep he couldn’t escape.

Why is it deemed justifiable and appropriate for cops/policeofficers to kill other cops (friendly–fire) and citizens?Why do cops kill?Are they not taught to maim or slow down someone runningor reaching for a weapon?If not, why...

The accountant lingers at his children’s doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost – but he know that’s...

Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling...

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

Michael: There’s nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there’s always the truth.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement,...

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one...

I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on...

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale…there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and...

When you hold onto a script that doesn’t serve you, you leave no space to write a new one that does.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look...

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

I know what I’m capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.

Most bad behavior is about that person’s core fears about themselves; it is rarely about you.

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun,...

Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my...

He couldn’t have pulled back the lock, they couldn’t simply have climbed over the sides of the stall in all of three seconds, because those weren’t the rules of the game.Theirs was the intoxication of...

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it’s the key to victory over fear and it’s cousin, depression.

Two powerful, little words I’ve learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts—so what?

There is no such thing as lack of love. There is only plenty of fear,which clouds our perceptions.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil’s best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach.

We are faced with choices every moment of our lives. Whatever choice we exercise must make us comfortable and at peace. Choices that are made out of fear and anxiety often do not lead to...

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Nobody is a loser: Either he is a winner or a learner.

Fear of a Black Planet,

Relax and breathe. The trouble with imaginative people is that we’re good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn. Bad criticism is not...

He must fear many whom many fear

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we...

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

To change your life, you need to become aware of yourself