#fear

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#fear #change

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#conscious mind #desire #fear #focus #key

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle. ↗

— George Eliot

#fear #wrath #anger

Tonight his father had caught up, carrying all the horrors of hell with him. His mother could no longer protect him—hide him—and now his father‟s wrath would fall on him. He ran across the fields and through the forest, his bare feet carrying him as fast as they could go, aching and bleeding into the night. He could feel his father‟s eyes on him and his stinking breath filling Raven‟s nostrils as he rushed toward the only place he had ever found safe. He sobbed, choking on his grief and his frustration—the horrible guilt of carrying all the anger from his father into their house making him sick and afraid. He ran with lungs and muscles burning from strain, throwing himself through the doors of the castle when he reached them and only then chancing to look back the way he‟d come. ↗

— Amanda M. Lyons

#castles #eyes-like-blue-fire #fear #past #anger

When we find ourselves in a situation in which our buttons are being pushed, we can choose to repress or act out, or we can choose to practice. If we can start to do the exchange, breathing in with the intention of keeping our hearts open to the embarrassment or fear or anger that we feel, then to our surprise we find that we are also open to what the other person is feeling. Open heart is open heart. ↗

— Chogyam Trungpa

#emotions #fear #practice #anger

I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us! ↗

— Garth Stein

#fear #self-destruction #art

Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind. ↗

— Corey Aaron Burkes

#bravery #cancer #courage #fear #intelligent

Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#confidence #courage #danger #fear #fearless

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#inspirational #art

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#fear #horror #macabre #art