Quotes About Fear

To the extent that your love [of God] is fearful, your love is incomplete or immature. It is not made perfect. 1 John 4:17-18

The things most people need to learn in therapy are related to attachment, abandonment, love, and fear. We are trying to access basic emotional processes that are organized in primitive and early-developing parts of the brain. The language of these emotions is also very basic; it is the language of childhood. The more complex the language and ideas you bring into therapy, the more likely you are to stimulate your clients' intellectualizing defenses.

Successful therapists learn to be 'amygdala whisperers' by leveraging the social brain in order to help clients face their fears.

Families embraced more than had been the habit; fathers who expected to be beaten to death stroked the hair of pretty daughters who expected to be raped.

I had to live among them secretly, like one who conceals leprosy.

foolish,' even though I didn't want to touch

I used to have nightmare about having petrol poured over me, and being set on fire, and nowadays I have nightmares that I have wooden teeth and that they are continually falling out, as if I had an infinite number of them. It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

But in this life on earth we have not only the fear but the certainty that we shall lose it. For one day we must die. Therefore true happiness... lasting, everlasting happiness cannot be our lot on earth. Nor could it be otherwise. For everlasting happiness is only another name for God.

Once more, as in the times of Nero and Diocletian and Attila, people were whispering of the Antichrist.

I was a child in those days, and that jail frightened me. Because I didn't know what men are like. Never again will I believe what they say or what they think. Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

To survive? What is that? A mouse lives, a fly lives; one flees in terror, another lives in filth. They exist, they are, but do they live?

There will be blood, he said quietly, blood and death. You should not have come. Since when was a woman afraid of blood? she asked. The problem is not only Sean's. It is mine also. If there is to be blood, I will share in the letting or the losing of it.

At another time she had said, "Do not be afraid. A little fear can make one cautious. Too much fear can rob you of initiative. Respect fear, but use it for an incentive, do not let it bind you or tie you down.

from a blow. His yellow eyes clung to von Hallstatt. He desperately

There is no safety anywhere,' he said quietly, 'but you do not seem a man who is used to safety. Ride well.

I've nothing against a man being scared as long as he does what has to be done Ã¢â'¬Â¦ being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.

It is good to say that you are afraid," Sakim said. "It is not good to be too bold. A little fear makes a man think. It is better to be a little afraid, and yet do what has to be done.

They know that when a man holds a gun he more

He did not take chances, but had helped to bury men who did.

her by night, somebody gets killed, see?

Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his way to the electric chair—appreciating all of the good things in life for the last time.

After all, if you're not scared, then there's nothing to be brave about, is there?

They had never had a nice teacher. They were terribly afraid of nice teachers.