I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.

Fears hide within fears….

Don’t be afraid to write. I think a lot of writers of all ages have a fear that they aren’t any good at writing. That fear is normal. I feel it. Most writers who care...

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

Panic and terror aren’t the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.

On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.

It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Leave fears aside, clean tears away! Tell God “here I am, use me!” and he’ll give you the assignments that will make your life a fulfilled one. Now dress up to work!

They’ll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

‘Strider’ I am to one fat man who lives within a day’s march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we...

One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We...

All at once it seemed like too much of a betrayal to continue to pretend that his brother was delirious, hallucinating, not in his right mind. Lying when he was telling the truth. Maybe Kenzie...

You should holistically build yourself to be the best you. The evidence of your glorious life should be an inspiration to many . You create your world yourself in your own positive way. You are...

Never let someone who draws a line and say you can’t cross it intimidate you. Don’t be discouraged when someone says you can’t do it. You might have been the only one sent to do...

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Fear is healthy. I wish it came in a pill. I’d bottle it up and sell it to little children and the elderly.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

I tell myself I have time. But the itch forming along the back of my neck and across my shoulders says otherwise.I hate this. It’s like I’m racing a clock ticking down to doomsday without...

Being Scared-off by EvilLastly, we deny the presence of evil because we are terrified by the horrendously hurtful, cruel, and bloody kinds of evil people tell us about—if we are willing to listen. This was...

At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you’ll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.

You have more brain cells than there are grains of sand on your favorite beach, and you have cleverness, dexterity, and creativity—all of which powerfully combine when you are at risk—if you listen to your...

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Be afraid in proportion to the threat.

Always do what you’re afraid to do.

Fear is the brother of hate.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger–frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Being brave is only standing up when you’re afraid.

Fear is father of humanity.

Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light....

I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely such monstrosities only existed in nightmares? Yet I had lived through a nightmare...

I am not a man of fear, but I am a man that knows how to fear. Without fear, we become lazy. Without fear, we become reckless. Fear doesn’t limit a man, it keeps the...

That’s the way I am,” is the voice of knowledge. It’s the voice of the liar living in the Tree of Knowledge in your head. The Toltec consider it a mental disease that is highly...

People ended up together for a lot of reasons, and very rarely was one of those reasons the kind of kissing-on-a-mountaintop-at-sunset bullshit you saw in movies. Mostly people were just too chickenshit to walk through...

What they have been teaching us is wrong. Yes, we do have control over our choices. Why? Because life gave us the freedom to choose. The only downside to this freedom are the insatiable consequences...

I standing up for myself and saying out loud what one will fear to whisper in the wind.

But was it worth anything?That’s the hopelessness of it. The openness of it. The part of it I can never understand. I am afraid of ambiguity and certainity and permanence and impermanence. And so is...

But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

Fear, left unchecked, can spread like a virus.

Tender Ember…Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above…

What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy...

We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories...

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

I’m not afraid of death really, just what comes after.

From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a...