Quotes About Fear

It might have been." I was also afraid of being of being rejected, and accepted for the wrong reasons.

Our fear robs us of our freedom to make the right choice in life. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward and never lose hope.

Fear robs us of our freedom to make the right choice in life that the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

It might have been." I too was also afraid of being of being rejected, and accepted for the wrong reasons.

It might have been." I was afraid of being of being rejected, and accepted for the wrong reasons.

It scares you that somebody understands just how lonely and frightened you feel.

It might have been." I too was afraid of being rejected, and accepted for the wrong reasons.

You cannot fully open up to love, if you build up defenses that nothing can hurt you again.

How many great things could happen to you by confronting the things that scare you most.

Sometimes I'll make a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible.

Jung observed that everyone has a pathological secret, something so scary, so shameful perhaps, so humiliating, that one will protect it nearly any cost.

If we are not willing to risk all, again, then we are precluded from intimacy.

Physical death is only one form of dying. There are other forms of dying: We die whenever fear governs our choices. We die when we sacrifice growth for security. We die whenever we choose a convenient certainty over an inconvenient mystery.

If you want to cure a neurosis, you have to risk something."2

What I cannot accept in myself, what I cannot handle in the complexity of the world, what I fear in you, often leads me to repress you if I can.

We have to recall the functional definition of the Shadow as that which renders us uncomfortable in confronting in ourselves.

My Shadow was not evil; it was the defense against being myself, my own—apparently risky, apparently too costly—self.

Go into the fear, deal with it, lest you live a fugitive life.

Anxiety is treated by a search for certainty. And certainty – wherever we think we've found it – will lead to dogma. And wherever we have dogma, in time, it leads to rigidity. And that rigidity ultimately leads to idolatry.

In other words to break an addiction we have to be able to face the unfaceable, think the unthinkable, bear the unbearable... The only way to go through them again is to go through them, to go down in that anxiety state and to feel what we really feel, is to go through and to break the tyranny of the addiction

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Sometimes I think it's easier to stand up to the whole school -- or the whole world even -- than it is to stand up to one person, especially if that person really matters to you.

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.

Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're not a coward?