#fear

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hesitation #hope #life #tragedy #life

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#masks #life

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. ↗

— Donald Miller

#life

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#fear #inaction #just-do-it #risk #timidity

Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.) ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hope #humanity #life #life

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be... ↗

— Bob Dylan

#life #truth #life

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#fears #reality-of-life #life

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#life #panic #scary #the-help #life

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope ↗

— David Archuleta

#hope #hopeful #life-lessons #life

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#fear #life