Fear Quote by Gwen Hayes

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

— John Steinbeck

“Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.”

— Kathy Magliato

“By letting fear illuminate what’s in need of healing, not just in you, but in your family, you have the potential to heal not…

— Lissa Rankin

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

— Deepak Chopra

“After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately.”

— Jessica Stern

“An emotional outbreak may follow, accompanied by strong, legitimate reproaches, and only after this outbreak will a new link with repressed experience become clear…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“I've been afraid so many times that I am no longer scared to be afraid again. What can't be cured must be endured.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a…

— Janina Fisher

“Victimology is incompatible with growth and healing. If we want one, we must be prepared to give up the other.”

— Fiona McColl

“Deciding to actively heal is terrifying because it means opening up to hope. For many survivors, hope has brought only disappointment. Although it is…

— Ellen Bass

There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t…

— Mira Grant