Words worth keeping

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

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.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.