“Free yourself from the confines that bind you. Maybe you built steel bars around your heart because you thought they had to be there. You wanted to protect yourself from being hurt so badly again. Take them down. Walk out. This may be physical or it may be metaphorical. But either way, know that…”Tagged: Free Yourself, Liberation, Finding Truth, Fear, Avoid Fear
“There is a difference between 'committing to the right person while you're young' and 'settling for someone while you're young out of obligation or fear or both.'”Tagged: Standards, Settling, Love, Fear, Obligation
“Not every fear feeling or negative thought is an invitation to explore it to a resolutive end.”Tagged: Fear, Pain, Thoughts, Negativity
“Nothing is 'scary' to us unless some part of us also wants to understand it, knows we are a part of it, and feels as though it will become part of our experience.”Tagged: Fear, scary, Change, Growth, Self-Development
“In fearing that happiness won't last forever, we lose it. In fearing that grief will last forever, we create it.”Tagged: Happiness, Fear, Grief, Self-Sabotage
“The idea that beautiful, joyous things could simply be ours without any conscious creation of them on our part is terrifying, because the opposite could just as well be true.”Tagged: Joy, Happiness, Fear, Accepting Happiness
“The pattern of unnecessarily creating crises in your life is actually an avoidance technique. It distracts you from actually having to be vulnerable or held accountable for whatever it is you're afraid of. You're never upset for the reason you think you are. At the core of your desire to create a…”Tagged: vulnerability, Honesty, Creating Problems, Self-Help, Growth
“Not wanting to do something would make you feel indifferent about it. Fear = interest.”Tagged: Indifference, Fear, Interest, Growth
“When you consider doing something that you truly love and are invested in, you are going to feel an influx of fear and pain, mostly because it will involve being vulnerable.”Tagged: Pain, Fear, Meaning
“Half the work of getting over anything is shining a light in the closet and realizing there aren't any monsters inside.”Tagged: monsters, Fear, Why things scare us, Quote of the Moment