Quotes About Fear

Love contains no fear, because the mere presence of fear desecrates love and makes it something less than pure. (Imagine) you have two 5-gallon buckets. In one you have 2 gallons of pure water (Love) and in the other you have 2 gallons of toxic waste (Fear). If you dip 1 gallon of toxic waste and pour it into the water, what do you now have? Two buckets of toxic waste.

You can either choose to walk in light and love, or run in fear and darkness. But with the latter, you're more likely to fall.

Anger is the mirror image of fear. It begins as fear, and is expressed outwardly as anger.

Do it. Go there. Take it away, permanently. Deliver the fear. Force the task. Remove all hope. Demand the sacrifice. Enact defeat. Wreck everything. Great endings are built of great climaxes: enormous feats, worst fears, tremendous losses, harrowing sacrifices, utter destruction.

A work of fiction grips our imaginations because we care, both about the characters in the tale and about ourselves. To put it another way, we are concerned about the outcome of the story because what is happening to the characters could happen to us.

Love ya" is the coward's way of saying "I love you.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Well, more than likely you will never entirely dissolve either your fear of your own failure or your small pleasure in other people's.

The boundaries of human experience are finite (if you haven't experienced emotions such as pain or fear or shame, you are either a sociopath or an alien), but within these boundaries there is significant range and diversity.

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Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27)

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3 000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

meditaba en Hebreos 12:29: «Porque nuestro Dios es un fuego que todo lo consume».

When we renounce our fear of life and give up trying to have it under our control—that is, when we acknowledge our contingency and utter dependence on God—then God comes to us and turns us toward Himself.

There's an old German proverb to the effect that "fear makes the wolf bigger than he is," and that is true.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

Turn not your mind from fears, but embrace them as your lover. Let terror posses your body and course through your veins.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

I knew you would follow," she said, "and I feared the longer we lingered, the more my da would suffer.

Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn't see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.

My love for Addie is terrifying, a perpetual state of vertigo, an ongoing condition of living on the edge of an abyss.

Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences are on alert. It's a habit they learned in childhood, when they couldn't be sure when they'd face the next high-tension situation. After her terrifying childhood illness, Michele never felt at peace, or whole, as an adult: "I was afraid I could be blindsided by any small medical crisis that could morph and change my entire life.

There's one more part," she said, finding the courage, knowing she needed to tell him the rest of it. "Of the all I want to have." "Which is?" She lifted her head then, propped her chin on his chest, and looked into his beautiful blue eyes. "You.

Michael pulled himself up straighter, wondering if he should let any of them across his threshold. He'd watched enough vampire movies to know they couldn't hurt you in your own home unless you invited them inside.