Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
Judy BlumeTags: facing-fear
A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
Criss JamiTags: fear paradox strength honesty humility weak weakness denial honest humble correction facing-fear reversal fear-of-failure facing-problems reverse facing lying-to-ourselves strengthening weakening
Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.
Julien SmithTags: fear courage afraid rational anxiety courageous irrational facing-fear flinch
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
Donald MillerTags: creativity resistance facing-fear
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.
Tags: fear death courage hope fear-of-unknown disney-world facing-fear seneca facing-problems hope-for-each-day
You just do it, then if you die, you die.
T. Scott McLeodTags: fear courage survival facing-fear
If it is going to kill you,” Enso Roshi says, “then let it kill you.
T. Scott McLeodTags: dark-night-of-the-soul overcoming-obstacles overcoming-challenges facing-fear overcoming-fear overcoming-adversity
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