Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.
If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Numb the dark and you numb the light.
Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
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