Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up nearly so well, that I'm just a shadowed reflection of them. Now that question hounds me a lot more often than I like to admit.
Cooper DavisTags: parents identity children expectations synergy fears worries weight-of-expectations
Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
Agatha ChristieTags: questions philosophy fears
It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next.
After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless.
We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete.
We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives.
The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.
Tags: truth lies addiction possibility monkeys abandonment darwin addictions fears abandon abandoned
The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment.
Barbara KingsolverTags: entertainment generations fears
But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted.
"I know. Fear is only fear, though."
"And somehow you live without it."
"No," he corrected her. "You live with it.
Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.
Simona PanovaTags: fear strength love man woman romantic strong romance loss victory dark relationships fiction horror failure mystery obsession praise girl boy gothic relationship fail afraid mysterious lose loving myself accomplish fears female appreciate win scary scared male loved oneself obsessed gothic-romance goth young-adult-romance horrified obsessive compulsive young-adult-gothic-romance
Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.
Richie NortonTags: fear courage fearless fears inspirational-quote inspirational-living fear-quote
If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.
Richie NortonTags: fear goals inspiration aspirations achievement fearless fears achieve achieving-dreams inspirational-quote achieving-success achieving-excellence
She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.
Mervyn PeakeTags: revolution independence fears
I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
Veronica RothTags: four fears inspire tobias overcome-overcome
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