#fear

Remember that only love conquers fear. ↗

— Marissa Burt

#love #love

The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try. ↗

— Susan Mallery

#love #love

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#conquer-fear #fear #resistance #art

You can’t love him,” he whispers. “I’ve waited so long. Why the boy? Why is it he that pounded a hole through the wall? ↗

— Kelsey Sutton

#love

There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is always smiling and agreeable. "Such a nice man," people say. "He never gets angry." The facade always covers its opposite expression. Inside, such a person is full of rage that he dares not acknowledge or show. Some men put up a tough exterior to hide a very sensitive, childlike quality. Even failure can be a role. Many masochistic characters engage in the game of failure to cover an inner feeling of superiority. An outward show of superiority could bring down on them the jealous wrath of the father and the threat of castration. As long as they act like failures they can retain some sexuality, since they are not a threat to her father. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#childhood #fear #guilt #parenthood #repression

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#diplomacy #fear #power #men

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#motivational #motivational

Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it. ↗

— Steve Chandler

#doing #fear #motivation #persistence #motivational

Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you. ↗

— Elizabeth Newton

#bravery #christian #fear #monsters #motivational

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#last-breath #morganville-vampires #oliver #rachel-caine #nature