“What I’ve come to realize is that all my fears of the future are actually fears of the past. Each of us has a whole bank of awful moments in our memories, each of which are so painful that we can’t accept that we could experience the same pain again.”— David Cain, thoughtcatalog.com
“Think about the last time you were scared, what happened? Chances are, you made it.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth is most of us worry ourselves with things that are most likely never going to happen. Truth might be stranger than fiction, but fiction will scare us more than reality, most times.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“We fear the future will mirror our past, because we are born to believe that history repeats itself. But human beings are not history, they reinvent themselves instead of repeating themselves.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“All of those fears you had in the past, those vintage anxieties that kept you up in 2004, where are they now? That’s right, they’re gone. You killed all of them. You got over it. You lived.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more — except his God.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go - or got careless and crushed it.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“I don't want a boyfriend. I don't want that commitment. A boyfriend is flowers and holding hands and having to buy cute little cards for holidays. A boyfriend is an investment, an emotional investment, and I don't want to give it and I... I don't want to expect it.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“I didn't want to believe him. I wanted to think he was full of empty words. I wanted to walk away from him. I wanted all of those things, but in the end, had none of them.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“I wanted to see him again, wanted to feel his hands on me, wanted to come with him inside me. I wanted all those things, and the wanting frightened me.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe… you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com
“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com