“Sometimes I want to know what you're thinking of. But then I get scared I'm not on your list.”— Shahd El Hadidy, facebook.com
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“"All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend our…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I realized that we are only brave when we have something to lose and we still try. We can’t be brave without fear.”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com
“The desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”— Roberto Bolaño, amazon.com
“When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life and that I can’t do.”— J. C. Chandor, amazon.com
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“When you take the step towards your dreams you will be met with fears because you have never traveled this way before. As you go, you will discover that you had nothing to fear.”— E'yen A. Gardner, amazon.com
“It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”— Theodore Roethke, poetryfoundation.org
“I find that fear and not wanting to take risks, and staying too comfortable makes people wait. They’ll say, ‘I’ll wait until this happens, I’ll wait until I go to film school, I’ll wait until I have all the money, I’ll wait until they ask me.’ Don’t wait for permission. Seek without permission. Ther…”— Ava DuVernay, scriptmag.com
“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 the…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com