Quotes About Fear

Children pay attention to the truth their bodies tell them. Adults learn to allow their defense mechanisms to alter the truth . As adults we are alerted to danger by bodily sensations that we need to pay attention to. These could include a flash of fear , sweating, a tight stomach, a pounding heart, the hair standing up on the neck, or a general feeling of discomfort that we may be unable to name.

The moral of the story is that seeking truth, rather than fear of pain or the desire for happiness, is the correct orientation toward inner work, since seeking happiness makes you its prisoner just as surely as does pain.

El Mayor drink twice and thrice then crouch down to the radio. He tweak its side, and its voice halt in silence. His shoulders ease. Then I surprise how my own fear relieve. Radio voice been like the voice of flies when your best child is dead.

I can't stand to think about Cheyenne up there hungry and cold with a gun pointed to her head." "I've

When in deadly danger, When beset by doubt, Run in little circles, Wave your arms and shout.

Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter.

A locked door makes you feel secure until the surrounding house is blown down.

You can never truly appreciate all the sounds of nature until you close your eyes. Similarly, never be afraid to close one door, so you can hear your dreams calling.

After that experience, I decided that the things that were more important to do were the things I was actually not focused on, and I wasn't focused on them because I was pretty much afraid of failing," he says. [quoted from Mark Roth]

Fear-based messaging will never lead to a long-term effective strategy because it is not the way we are wired.

No event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and of mental distress, as is burial before death… . What I have now to tell is of my own actual knowledge—of my own positive and personal experience. —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Premature Burial

All forms of comedy are terrifying.

it is dangerous to be perceived as dangerous.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

Over time she had come to understand that her fear prevented nothing, achieved nothing useful.

The devils we run away from are the ones that pursue us most vigorously, and will only be defeated when you turn to face them down.

All women are alike when they fear for their children

You scare one stupid man, he'll most likely run off. But a crowd of stupid men—there ain't nothing more dangerous, or meaner.

The future is mysterious and frightening to you now, but in the end all will be well. There will be great happiness and great sorrow, you will have a family, you will find yourself capable of things you cannot now imagine. But you will persevere, and one day you will look around yourself and know that your life is good and that you are, in spite of all your early fears, happy.

I have loved the stars too well to fear the night. ---Elizabeth Middleton Bonner

A hole ain't nothing either, but you can still break your neck in it.

Each day is unique and precious, a coin to be spent thoughtfully. Waste nothing and your regrets will be few. The young cannot imagine death and for that reason they fear it. I am not afraid of death. I greet it as anyone who has a long and satisfying day's work behind them greets sleep. I have loved the stars too well to fear the night.

Life had made her afraid, of words that were no meant, of emotions that were untrue.

She couldn't think straight. There was her home, her job, her way of life but the deep tenderness of his kiss reawakened her heart, dispelling all clouds and hurts and fears. She belonged to Andrew now and for ever and the singing within her was so loud and joyous that it all but quelled the little unease that was left.