“If you spend your life trying to be who others want you to be...then who will be you?”— Wesley Snipes, twitter.comTagged: Self-Love, Self Care, Self Acceptance, Self Appreciation, Live for yourself
“There are over 7.000.000.000 people on this planet. Why are you allowing one of them to ruin your life?”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.comTagged: self control, Self-Worth, Self-Trust, Self Care, don't let others control your life
“But what shall I do when instead of a heart this fear is beating in my body?”— Franz Kafka, amazon.comTagged: Fear, heart
“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”— George Washington Carver, goodreads.comTagged: Fear, Hate, Destruction
“The things I've learned from a broken mirror. How a face can change when a heart knows fear.”— Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, open.spotify.comTagged: Fear, Fear of Change, life-changing experiences, Life
“Any time you’re feeling anxious, simply take slow, deliberate breaths. Be aware of and focus on your inhalation and exhalation. Repeat.”— Kris Gage, advice.shinetext.comTagged: Anxiety
“Sometimes it helps to just get the things out in a safe, loving environment. But you can't solve everything. So do your best to not make anyone feel terrible about just feeling their feelings.”— Jean Grae, twitter.comTagged: Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Illness, Depression, talking about mental health
“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.”— John McCain, amazon.comTagged: Courage, Fear, What Is Courage?
“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong.”— Michael Crichton, amazon.comTagged: self control, societal standards, Society, Self Care, Self-Trust
“That thing that was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you, probably no one noticed or cared, and if they did, they forgot about in two minutes.”— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.comTagged: Encouraging, Social Anxiety, Anxiety, Comforting Words
“Depression is an unbelievably powerful thing. It’s wild. One minute you can just be sitting there enjoying yourself and then, without even so much as a change in wind direction, your brain can decide that your world is crashing down all around you.”— Elan Gale, twitter.comTagged: Depression, Depression Awareness, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Illness
“I enjoy controlled loneliness. I like wandering around the city alone. I’m not afraid of coming back to an empty flat and lying down in an empty bed. I’m afraid of having no one to miss, of having no one to love.”— Kuba Wojewódzki, goodreads.comTagged: Loneliness, controlled loneliness, Alone, Solitude, solitary enjoyment
“I have this theory. I don’t know if this holds water, but it’s just that if death is the end of the story, how the story ends, then marriage is a giant step in that direction. Actually, the fear of marriage is the fear of death.”— Jeff Bridges, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Death, Fear
“Before understanding deep breathing’s physiological benefits, you first have to grasp how your body responds to stress. As most people have experienced, when you’re worried, upset, or anxious, you can feel it viscerally — your heart starts to beat faster and faster, you can feel dizzy, and blood rus…”— Amanda Arnold, thecut.comTagged: Deep Breathing, Anxiety, calming
“I will accept any amount of monsters my mind wants to give to me, but I will not become a monster myself.”— Marissa Meyer, amazon.comTagged: Thinking, Anxiety, Perspective
“You have to know who you are and who you belong to. Fear doesn’t have any right to you. It doesn’t own you.”— Joel Osteen, twitter.comTagged: Ownership Over Yourself, Fear
“It’s a strange business, speaking for yourself, in your own name, because it doesn’t at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject. Individuals find a real name for themselves, rather, only through the harshest exercise in depersonalization, by opening themselves up to the mult…”— Gilles Deleuze, amazon.comTagged: speaking for yourself, self, Self Absorbed, Self Boundaries, Self Care
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.comTagged: Freedom, rights, aspiration, Lives, Life
“This is the time for facts, not fear. This is the time for science, not rumors. This is the time for solidarity, not stigma.”— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, cnbc.comTagged: coronavirus, Facts, Fear, Science, Rumors
“...with trembling anxiety I had been permitted to watch over and minister to my idolized husband, through an illness and receiving his loving farewell words in return, I could have thanked him for his lifelong - almost; devotion to me & mine, and I could have asked forgiveness, for any inadvertent m…”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, Marriage, Love, Words, Devotion
“Fear can paralyze you. Or it can fuel you. Let it do the latter, my friends. Good luck and keep at it.”— Harlan Coben, twitter.comTagged: Fear, Dreams, reaching dreams, Keep Going, Never Give Up
“In time of war, the general social condition is fertile soil for the development of hate and fear, and transference of these to minority groups is quite simple.”— Bayard Rustin, explorepahistory.comTagged: War, Hate, Fear, Minorities
“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.”— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Terror, Political Weapon, Cruelty, Respect, Hate
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”— Harvey Fierstein, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: bullying, self awareness, Self Confidence, self control, Self Care
“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as ‘moral indignation,’ which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”— Erich Fromm, brenebrown.comTagged: Love, Fear, News
“I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, fifty years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. What I came to realize is that fear, that’s the worst…”— Peter Gould, Walter White, Bryan Cranston, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Enemy, Survival, Suffering
“[Boromir picks up the One Ring after Frodo had lost it] It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing. Such a little thing.”— Chris Conkling, Peter S. Beagle, Boromir, Sean Benn, imdb.comTagged: Fear, Doubt, strange, small
“Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.”— Robert Greene, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Prison of Yourself, overcome your fears
“You may not know this, but I’m actually a very modest and anxious person, and even writing 'masturbation' in the book was stressful to me.”— Lena Dunham, amazon.comTagged: Modesty, Anxiety, masturbation
“I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.comTagged: Death, Fear, Flying, Airplane, Equipments