#fear

I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#impossible #love #risk-it #love

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death. ↗

— William Gurnall

#fear #heaven #hope #master #your

Fear is excitement without breath. ↗

— Robert Heller

#excitement #fear #without

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#always #comprehend #consolidate #fear #i

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#concern #consult #dreams #failed #fears

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#everlasting #every #face #fairly #fearlessly

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#cancer #could #crying #death #decided

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. ↗

— Preston Manning

#american #canadian #definition #dislikes #fears

People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes. ↗

— Liz Rosenberg

#philosophy-of-life #purpose #change

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fear #passion