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Quotes About Fears

Getting to know patients is what I do. I learn about their deepest fears and secrets. A professional relationship becomes a personal one. It can be no other way. (190)
~ Michael Robotham
Changing external conditions might seem to work at first, but if a person is not in control of his consciousness, the old fears or desires will soon return, reviving previous anxieties. One
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
How can it help a person learn to rid himself of anxieties and fears and thus become free of the controls of society, whose rewards he can now take or leave? As suggested before, the way is through control over consciousness, which in turn leads to control over the quality of experience. Any small gain in that direction will make life more rich, more enjoyable, more meaningful.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
They're awful fears. They're sweat-through-your-nightgown-into-your-sheets fears. I don't wish them on any of you. But if you have them too, that makes me feel better. And if you feel better knowing that I have them, I'm happy.
~ Mindy Kaling
1. Dreams are rubbish of fears and desires. 2. If you do not desire anything, then karma over you is powerless. You see the infinity of reality, you have awakened and the childhood of despair is over. You evolved when you are too lazy to do stupid things. 3. Death is an interdimensional culture shock of awareness and deep insight. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown
Whatever your fears, whatever the unknowns or the challenges in your life, God has promised to provide for you, to share His pleasure with you, to protect you, and to give you His enduring presence.
~ Unknown
The promises of God provide a powerful antidote to all our fears and free us to step out in faith and surrender.
~ Unknown
To get a message across to people, you must address their assumptions, questions, objections, hopes, fears, and aspirations.
~ Nancy Pearcey
The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other's weaknesses and fears as much as we know our strengths and desires.
~ Nancy Thayer
Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Living in the here and now, we are awash with sensations of the present, memories of the past, and expectations and fears for the future. Our actions are not determined by any one cause; they are the fulfillment of who we are at that particular moment. After that moment passes, we continue to evolve, to change, and our memories of that moment inevitably change with us as we live with the consequences of our past actions, consequences we were unaware of at the time.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer
~ Unknown
A European war! Millions of lives! Often I had been astonished by my friend's amazing powers, but never had I seen him infer so much on the basis of so little. And, great heavens, what if it should prove true? I do not know how Freud passed that night, but my dreams surpassed my waking fears. The gay and colourful city of Johann Strauss was no longer revolving to the stately strains of his waltzes, but swirling to the shriek of a terrible nightmare.
~ Nicholas Meyer
Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words and your faith stronger than your feelings.
~ Nicky Gumbel
Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Either you have dreams big enough to overcome your fears or you have fears big enough to overcome your dreams.
~ Orrin Woodward
You cannot live your dreams and fears simultaneously. One must die.
~ Orrin Woodward
What line of thinking do my thoughts take? Do I turn to what God says or to my own fears? Am I simply repeating what God says, or am I learning to truly hear Him and then to respond after I have heard what He says?
~ Oswald Chambers
Love is full of anxious fears.
~ Ovid
another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations-projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves-and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situation—projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves—and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Knowing what our beliefs are requires confronting ourselves, our fears, and our resistance to change. Once we know what our real beliefs are, we can allow them to evolve and change if they do not serve us.
~ Unknown
Confrontation, which is often the one thing victims want to avoid most, is inevitable. Victims will have to confront their own fears, senses of obligation, and feelings of guilt. Likewise, they are going to have to confront the blackmailer. While these are daunting tasks, victims must assert themselves in order to break the cycle.
~ Unknown