#fear

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#childhood #children #disaster #fear #helping

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#goodkind #ghost

There is no client as scary as an innocent man." J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#clients #criminal-law #fear #guilt #innocence

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them. ↗

— Stanley Coren

#dogs-loyalty #fear #loyalty

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#job

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#winning

Fear always springs from ignorance. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#ignorance #spring

I tend to scare myself. ↗

— Stephen King

#king

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#change #courage #depression #dragons #fears

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#monsters #nietzsche #battle