#fear

I'm so profoundly happy! Happiness like this is frightening. They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you" -- Sofia Akrami from The Kite Runner ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#happiness #life #life

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#time #life

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#fear #life #morality #wisdom #life

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be. ↗

— Donald Miller

#facing-fear #resistance #life

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid. ↗

— Anne Rice

#women #life

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#distraction #fear #life #life

The only thing I am afraid of is fear. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#am #fear #i #i am #only

Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves. ↗

— Leslie Marmon Silko

#life

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#creativity #fear-of-failure #life

How do you control another person? Two ways. Trust, or fear. People and animals will follow you if they trust you. But trust must be earned. And it is earned by people who are good and great. So if you’re neither good nor great, you can only use fear... ↗

— J.H. Myn

#life #trust #truth #life