Being brave is only standing up when you're afraid.
Jon SteeleI’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.
Mark LawrenceStichwörter: fear silence horror
Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.
Shirley JacksonStichwörter: fear strangers afraid merricat
Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown in our minds with expectations of the tragic, we can choose to fill the void with a different expectation – the expectation of adventure.
For example, Seneca, the Greek philosopher, refused to be afraid of what he did not know. When asked if he was afraid of dying, he replied, “Absolutely not, why should I be afraid of something I know nothing about.” His orientation toward the unknown of death was not to fill the gap in his understanding with horror but potential.
Stichwörter: fear death courage hope fear-of-unknown disney-world facing-fear seneca facing-problems hope-for-each-day
Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say they're scared for the fear to become real
Neil GaimanStichwörter: fear
The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: first, to the chosen adventure, but then, also, to the ideals of the order of knighthood. Now, this second commitment seems to put Gawain's way in opposition to the way of the Buddha, who when ordered by the Lord of Duty to perform the social duties proper to his caste, simply ignored the command, and that night achieved illumination as well as release from rebirth. Gawain is a European and, like Odysseus, who remained true to the earth and returned from the Island of the Sun to his marriage with Penelope, he has accepted, as the commitment of his life, not release from but loyalty to the values of life in this world. And yet, as we have just seen, whether following the middle way of the Buddha or the middle way of Gawain, the passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.
Joseph CampbellStichwörter: fear courage virtue desire hero loyalty buddha odysseus knight temperance gawain
Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings
Jocelyn MurrayStichwörter: fear imagination darkness
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
Herta MüllerStichwörter: fear authoritarianism
You just do it, then if you die, you die.
T. Scott McLeodStichwörter: fear courage survival facing-fear
Insta-love isn’t something that happens in real life. It
happens in the books I read, but not in the world I live. Though here
stands this beautiful, sexy, funny, sweet and amazing guy who has
done everything short of professing love at first sight to me and I’m
still standing here like a pair of lungs suffocating, needing him in
order to breathe.
Stichwörter: fear truth love kissing romance japan
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