Quotes About Fear

Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk. A Course in Miracles tells us, "Love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and thankful mind …These are the true conditions for your homecoming.

Simon hated her for that. Perhaps it was automatic. Her appearance alone made her different from him, and human beings had always feared and hated anyone who was different. Two thousand years of history saw it being repeated over and over, the perpetual struggle of one race, or tribe, or creed, against another... each one thinking they were right, superior, morally justified, or chosen by God. Simon saw himself as normal, Laura as abnormal.

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other." "And between the two is the lump in the throat,

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

Beauvoir knew that the root of all evil wasn't money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have.

She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting to finish the story, wanting to know how it ended. She was afraid she'd run out of time before she ran out of book.

The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage.

It wasn't really, he knew, about less fear. It was about more courage.

What's the use of healing, if the life that's saved is callow and selfish and ruled by fear? There's a difference between being in sanctuary and being in hiding.

It's about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.

Not everyone's an explorer, and not every explorer makes it back alive. That's why it takes so much courage.

First you scare them, then you offer them your false hope. It's disgusting. But it works. And now the politicians, familiar with the power of fear, have bought your potion wholesale.

believe in using your head. But not in spending too much time in there. Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Oscar Wilde said that conscience and cowardice are the same thing. What stops us from doing horrible things isn't our conscience but the fear of getting caught.

There's a huge fucking missile launcher in our backyard and apparently the only thing between us and Armageddon is some guy who's afraid of a duck.

The world turned upside down,' Beauvoir continued. 'It was at once more beautiful and more frightening than you'd been led to believe. And suddenly you didn't know what to do. Who to trust. Where to turn. It's terrifying. Being lost is so much worse than being on the wrong road. That's why people stay on it for so long.

Do you know, Armand, I can't remember the last time I felt safe." "I know what you mean," said Gamache. "It feels as though this has been going on forever." "No, I don't mean just this mess. I mean all my life.

And fear. High school smelled of that more than anything else, even more than sweaty feet, cheap perfume and rotten bananas.

You're catastrophizing, allowing fear into the driver's seat. You're reacting to things that haven't happened and behaving as though they have, or are inevitable. Focus on what is actually happening, here and now." "Surrender to reality," he said with a small grin and, grabbing a tissue, he rubbed his eyes. It was one of Hardye Moel's favorite sayings. "Yes. Stop fighting battles that don't exist. Focus on what does.

He was drawn to the edge of things. To the places old mariners knew, and warned, "Beyond here be monsters."… He stepped into the beyond, and found the monsters hidden deep inside all the reasonable, gentle, laughing people. He went where even they were afraid to go.

believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't.

Memories can kill, Yvette. The past can reach right up and grab you and drag you to a place you shouldn't be. Like a burning building.