As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“It’s good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Despite experiencing the horrors of war, despite the suffering of displacement, despite the pains and traumas of crossing the sea in old… — Patrick Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Fear triggers the fight-or-flight response, fueled by adrenaline, which, as it turns out, is chemically related to amphetamines. Granted, it's a very… — Tristan Taormino Copy Share Image
“By meditating, we´re learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Do I matter? Can I, Even now, Especially now, Make a difference? I have struggled with this, All of my days, For… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“never feel lonely with you,” said Bean when they stopped kissing. “I keep expecting to feel lonely or shut out or irritated,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Falling out of love was much harder than Gabe would have liked. Normally led through life by the heart attached to his… — Leslye Walton Copy Share Image
“Only worry about what you absolutely know about,' Mr. Worthington said to me, putting my mind back where it belonged. 'That's the… — Sarah-Kate Lynch Copy Share Image
“When I lie waking all alone, Recounting what I have ill done, My thoughts on me then tyrannize, Fear and sorrow me… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
“We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Through the rivers we must cross and the mountains we climb. They’ll be paths we go down in life, full of bumps,… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Lizzie said that if you imagined you were standing on the moon, looking down on the earth, you wouldn't be able to… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Want you, but then again I don't. I'm willing to take a chance, but not really. To tell you the truth, I'm… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
“The fear of being alone is greater than the fear of losing yourself. How scary, and sad, is that? The reality is… — Halle Kaye Copy Share Image
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“The world in which we live can be a narrow bridge. The most important thing is not to fear. Keep moving straight… — Roberta Kagan Copy Share Image
The key to overcoming adversity is to be ready to understand that you have enough, no matter what rug is pulled out… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
“The comradeship that welded our lives together made a superfluous mockery of any other bond we might have forged for ourselves.What, for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The fear of being inadequate is the one that you should fight the hardest. This kind of fears eats up your self… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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“I'm afraid to write. It's so dangerous. Anyone who's tried, knows. The danger of stirring up hidden things - and the world… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The increasing number of people, both men and women, that obsessively stare at others wherever they go, and even while walking outside,… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Soon I was weeping---for the reservists who put their entire lives on hold when called to duty, for the military mothers who… — Lily Burana Copy Share Image
“Part of the problem was that I couldn't seem to get past the fact that I hadn't tried to escape from Kas.… — Sophie Hayes Copy Share Image
“Were you really not frightened?" "Sometimes I was terrified, but that was the whole point." "You wanted to be afraid?" She couldn't… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
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