#fear

"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend."

"We would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die."

"Is it better to be feared or loved? Loved, because people associate with you because they want to, not because they need to. We need to eat beets, but we want to eat cake. Be the cake of the world."

"Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift."

"Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope"

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom."

"Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness."

"I’m more terrified of failure than rejection—so I’ll no my way to YES!"

"...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you."

"The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little."

"How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it."

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

"Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right."

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

"I love you, I thought. But I didn’t say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one— that she won’t say it back."

"I know how you feel,"I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."