“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 own heart.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Life, self, self-journey, Self & Identity, internal world
“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”— Marianne Williamson, amazon.comTagged: How To Think, A Course In Miracles, Love, Spirituality, Fear
“Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Psychological, weapon, Freedom, Law
“When we experience our fear, when we say the words 'I am scared,' we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.”— Paul Glaser, paulmichaelglaser.orgTagged: Commencement Addresses, Commencement, Fear
“First, his personal achievement. I am not concerned here about marches and boycotts, great and important though they were, but rather about a man who struggled to conquer in himself both fear and hate, two of humanity’s most destructive and limiting emotions. I want to stress struggled and conquered…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.comTagged: Achievement, Marches, Boycotts, Prejudice, Fear
“Deep in the wintry parts of our minds, we know that there is no such thing as a work-free transformation. We know that we will have to burn to the ground in one way or another, and then sit right in the ashes of who we once thought we were and go on from there.”— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, amazon.comTagged: Complicated Life, Anxiety
“When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.”— Alan Moore, amazon.comTagged: Thoughts, Unpleasant Thoughts, Anxiety, Madness
“The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. While the Chief Magistrate and the popular branch of Congress are elected for short terms by the suffrages of those millions who must in their own persons bear all the burdens and miseries of war, our Government can not be other…”— James K. Polk, thoughtco.comTagged: Fear, Government, Congress, War
“We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.”— Terence McKenna, amazon.comTagged: Moon, Space Travel, Ocean, Fear, Consciousness
“I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house was on fire—because it is.”— Greta Thunberg, web.archive.orgTagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Hopeful, Panic, Fear
“We are always fearful for ourselves in this life.”— John Calvin, amazon.comTagged: fearful, Fear, Life, Living, human
“I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Fai…”— Trevor Noah, amazon.comTagged: Regret, Failure, Rejection, What If, Fear
“Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.comTagged: Authoritarianism, regime, Totalitarian, free thought, idea
“Dwight, listen: no matter what happens, you gotta forget about all the other stuff. You gotta forget about logic and fear and doubt. You just gotta do everything you can to get to the one woman who's gonna make all this worth it. At the end of the day, you gotta jump. You love Angela, Dwight. I thin…”— Bryan Cranston, Jim Halpert, John Krasinski, imdb.comTagged: Love, Logic, Fear, Doubt, jump
“I was afraid of the boogeyman until I was fourteen or fifteen. The boogeyman was the devil who could appear in any form. Before I went to sleep, I had to look under my bed. The boogeyman was death and death was the greatest fear of all.”— Etta James, amazon.comTagged: boogeyman , devil, demon, Childhood, Fear
“Overcome your fear by changing a negative situation around into a positive one by yourself. When that's done, you will not only feel good about the situation (which is now positive) but you will also gain some self-respect for having turned around a bad situation by yourself.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.comTagged: Fear, Overcoming Fear, Negativity To Positivity, positivism attracts positivity
“The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Mental Health
“Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as "grace under pressure" — grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of ha…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.comTagged: Fearlessness, Gift, endeavour, Courage, cultivating
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”— Harry Truman, presidency.ucsb.eduTagged: Censorship, Repression, Fear
“I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.”— Edmund Hillary, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Courage, Stimulant, ability, strength
“How I deal with fear : when it comes up, I examine it, I breathe in love, I breathe out and release it. I say thank you for being a part of my survival at a time, but we may let go and thrive.”— Latasha Alcindor, twitter.comTagged: Fear, dealing with fear
“But whereas it is most certain that the King doth not only make speedy preparation in Spain, but likewise expecteth a very great fleet from the Straits and divers other places to join with his forces to invade England, we purpose to set apart all fear of danger, and by God’s furtherance to proceed b…”— Francis Drake, amazon.comTagged: king, leader, Ruler, govern, speedy
“There is no need to go through life handicapped by past experiences. What others say about you doesn’t matter. How they treated you is inconsequential.”— Charles F. Stanley, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Memory, Trauma, Handicapped
“Do you know how a lost heart fears At the thought of reminiscing And how lips that taste of tears Lose their taste for kissing? You don't know how hearts burn For love that can, not live yet never dies Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes You don't know what love is”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.comTagged: Fear, Losing someone you love, Reminiscing, Heart Break
“Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?”— Andy Stanley, amazon.comTagged: Generosity, Comfort Zone, Fear, Harvesting, prosperity
“Doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home. It changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up but maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap, maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to g…”— Alex Karev, imdb.comTagged: Toughness, strength, Trauma, Change, life changing
“Fear is un-American. And yes, the irony of saying those words to you on Halloween, of all days, is not lost on me. But although we may choose, as Americans, to scare ourselves once a year for fun...no one else tells any American when to shake in their boots at any other time.”— Tian Jun Gu, Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey, imdb.comTagged: Fear, Unamerican, Halloween
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.comTagged: Terrifying, Fear, Courage, motivation
“[strains to speak as voice gradually grows softer] Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware: Anger, fear, aggression—the Dark Side, are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Luke...Luke...do not…Do not underestimate the powers of the Empe…”— Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Yoda, Frank Oz, amazon.comTagged: The Force, strength, Fear, Death, Destiny
“I own my self, I own my leaving.”— Jorie Graham, amazon.comTagged: self, Self & Identity, self control, self-absorption, Self Care