#fear

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#explore-fears #fear #fearless #overcome-fear #overcome-fears

الخوف لا مفر منه ، يتوجب عليّ تقبله ، ولكن لا يمكنني السماح له بأن يشلني ↗

— Isabel Allende

#fearless #fearless

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337 ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#fearless

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#despair #difficulty #fear #optimism #poetry

I was Ashallayn’darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#fear #honor #witch #honor

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#fear #kvothe #man-s #name #patrick-rothfuss

They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#chain-reactions #control #fear #political-bias #religious-prejudice

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#excess #fear

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#fear

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears? ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#melinda #truth #fear