Quotes About Fear

Sometimes what youre most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.

When you find that one part of yourself that wants freedom from fear more than it wants the freedom fear promises, youve found the real beginning of the end of fear.

True intimacy is the experience of real acceptance and authentic vulnerability without feeling the need to apologize or fear rejection. The freedom to just be and know it's all good.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

People fear what they don't understand: Change, Death, 4th grade math word problems. . .

A zooology teacher asks the class 'What is the one animal in the jungle that a lion is afraid of?' The class answers: a lioness.

Im afraid of three things: Women, snakes, and the police. They all have the ability to hurt me and make it look like it was my fault.

Scared the postman by going to the door naked. I'm not sure what scared him more, my naked body or the fact that I knew where he lived.

Fearing a man is a joke. If he can breathe, then he can choke.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their head turned up way too loud to hear it.

I dont fear death, but I sure dont like those three-footers for par.

I think I swallowed a bug!

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

When I read the words, "a woman has the power to…change her experience," I knew overcoming my fear that my father would come into my room, even after he was dead, would be one of my biggest challenges. Because he had come in so many hundreds of times, I had been indelibly conditioned. I guess that's why I call it the "work" of healing. It is grueling, nose-to-the-grindstone-work to change long held beliefs and accompanying emotions…but it can be done.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.

It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You're so innocent in the beginning; you don't know.

Human beings are afraid of very simple things: we fear suffering, we fear mortality. What I was doing in Rhythm 0—as in all my other performances—was staging these fears for the audience: using their energy to push my body as far as possible. In the process, I liberated myself from my fears. And as this happened, I became a mirror for the audience—if I could do it, they could do it, too.