Quote by Christina McKenna

“they understood that to be bound by another’s needs and wishes was perhaps, in essence, a far more fearful state than being on one’s…

— Christina McKenna

“It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden…

— Jan Struther

“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.”

— Sarah Pekkanen

“This was how people were able to do things when they didn't want to - they made themselves feel something else, like anger, more…

— Gordon Dahlquist

“Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive.”

— Alex Lamb

“Trapped and tormented by your own wishes. I knew intimately how that felt; I was often strangled by the tyranny of my desires.”

— S. Jae-Jones

“things—Feeling Safe, Being Right, Feeling Good, and Looking Good. If any of these conditions are challenged, we become fearful.”

— Peter Coughter

“And what is fear of need but need itself?”

— Kahlil Gibran

“Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.”

— Helen Keller

“One can only understand the power of the fear to be different, the fear to be only a few steps away from the herd,…

— Erich Fromm

“Soon, I found myself locked in my own cage of fear and desperation, where my experience of life was getting smaller and smaller.”

— Anita Moorjani

“Sometimes the pain they wish to spare is their own because if you can be convinced to set aside your own dreams, they can…

— J. Michael Straczynski