#fear

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."

"The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money."

"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker."

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

"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?"

"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."

"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

"You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense."

"Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions."

"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."

"In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure."

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what"

"The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved."

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."