#fears

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me. ↗

— Mary Pope Osborne

#facing-fears #fortitude #perseverance #courage

People always laugh at me when I tell them I’m scared of pencils, because they can’t fathom why anyone would fear a puncture wound or lead poisoning from a pencil, especially now that it’s impossible to get lead poisoning since they don’t actually contain lead. But those fuckers are sharp, and I have nightmares about getting cornered in a room and repeatedly stabbed with one. Somehow knives don’t frighten me, even though they are the more obvious tool for both a real and imagined stabbing. ↗

— Kate Madison

#memoir #pencils #stabbing #imagination

The more we talk about our troubles and fears, the more life we breathe into them. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#troubles #life

If you are left side in the world don't be ashamed to show it, do not settle to be another lost men in the chapter. ↗

— Nadair Desmar

#showing #men

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

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?' ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#fearsome #literaturem #ultimate #writing #art

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#america #attach #black #clearly #defined

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#before #child #consequence #fear #fears

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#accident #dead #fear #fears #most