“the fear of not being good enough makes you try harder for those who aren't good enough for you”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“that's the problem with being hurt you avoid love altogether out of fear of more hurt”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“I needed to embrace what I could do, my part in the balance of life, and stop thinking about what I might not be able to do, stop fearing what lay around the corner.”— Susan May, amazon.com
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.”— James Wong, Glen Morgan, Dana Scully, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com
“I know I should be afraid, but I'm not.”— James Wong, Glen Morgan, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com
“At the beginning there was a lot of fear, but I came to the point of knowing I can't be that fearful or let that fear traumatize me or prevent me from doing the work I want to do.”— Geena Rocero, cosmopolitan.com
“I plead with you -- never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”— Pope John Paul II, amazon.com
“Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.”— Richie Norton, amazon.com
“What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So don't be afraid. Be alive.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself: All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com