“Maybe the fear of loving you has to do with the fear of me losing myself in you only to someday lose you too.”— Ava Shêzori, instagram.com
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”— Sigmund Freud, amazon.com
“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.com
“Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don’t lift a finger for a lost cause.”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com
“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com
“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“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.com
“I was the most fearful child; I was scared of everything. I was scared of bees, I was scared of freshly cut grass on my feet, I was scared of balloons and I was scared of Father Christmas.”— Emily Blunt, independent.co.uk
“I don’t want to sound too precious about it at all, but, you know, I wanted to do something that frightened me a bit.”— Christopher Nolan, nytimes.com
“I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.”— Erica Jong, amazon.com
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com