Whenever I am watching a movie and it comes to the scary bit with the protagonist being chased by an evil foe or some equally terrifying encounter, I always end up shouting at the TV something along the lines of ‘hide up that tree’ or ‘pretend you are dead and just lay there!’ This is …
Fear
Everyone fears rejection at one time or another. Maybe you decided not to ask someone out on a date because you were afraid the object of your affection would decline. Or perhaps you didn’t apply for a coveted job because you were worried you wouldn’t get it. Either way, you may have missed out on …
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ― Eleanor Roosevelt …
You can’t do anything as long as you are afraid of what might happen. Fear clouds opportunities, erases possibilities, and limits the ability to move beyond the place in which the mind is stuck. No matter how difficult we think the problem is, we must muster up the courage to face it. — Iyanla Vanzant …
It is bitter irony to see people who can’t let go of someone or something for fear of emptiness in their life … yet their spirits are wasting away because they choose to hold on. — Dodinsky
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will …
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri J.M. Nouwen
There are many ways to manage fear, but I believe it’s more important to realize you are not a helpless victim, you are not a fly caught in a spider web, and that even if bad things happened before, it doesn’t mean they will again. You CAN protect yourself. You CAN deal with the fear. …
Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you will go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you’ve faced. All the battles you have won. All the fears you’ve overcome. All the chapters you have written. Remember the moments that came before when you had this same doubt and overcame it. You can …
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ― Eleanor Roosevelt
To believe that we can and must hide the parts of us that are broken, out of fear that others are incapable of loving the parts of us that we cannot love ourselves, is to believe that sunshine is incapable of entering a broken window and warming an empty room. — Sandra Kring We recommend …