Acceptance Quote by Anne Carson

I think my biggest revelation was to write entirely from the heart, and to convey emotion, even when it meant forcing myself to feel…

— Alex Gaskarth

Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

People are intrigued but also scared about things that are uneasy.

— Julia Garner

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except…

— Jonathan Franzen

“What scares us ultimately may not be closeness itself but the feelings it evokes. For someone with a fear of engulfment, closeness may set…

— David Richo

During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals…

— Alice Walker

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

— Radclyffe Hall

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration…

— George Saunders

“When any distress or terror surprises us in the midst of our amusements, it naturally makes a deeper impression than at other times, either…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“The romantic notion of "opposites attract" works well in fairy tales. However, science proves that "like attracts like" for healthy communication and successful relationships.…

— Susan C. Young