#fear

I love you, I thought. But I didn’t say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one— that she won’t say it back. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#love #love

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. ↗

— Madonna

#love #love

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#breakups #emotions #fear #heartache #loss

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#fear #life #love #risk #story

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love. ↗

— Aberjhani

#fear #heaven #human-nature #love #spirituality

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#love

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#fear #madness #saintliness #surrender #true-love

Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lauren-oliver #love #love

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate. ↗

— James M. Cain

#mistakes #love

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.” -Bill Hicks ↗

— Bill Hicks

#fear-mongering #fearkiller #love #love