23. I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always … so you must fight hard to express it.
You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. ~ Yann Martel
24. The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fear is only the ghost of our own minds. ~ Terry Goodkind
You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. ~ Yann Martel
24. The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fear is only the ghost of our own minds. ~ Terry Goodkind
25. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things happen. Don't be afraid. ~ Frederick Buechner
26. Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. ~ Veronica Roth
27. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
28. Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. ~ Francis Chan
29. Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan
30. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Bertrand Russell
31. The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. ~ Joseph Campbell
32. Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. ~ Donald Miller \
33. It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job. ~ Jim Butcher
34. It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be. ~ Bob Dylan
35. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
36.Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts … perhaps the fear of a loss of power. ~ John Steinbec
37. A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more. ~ John Steinbeck
38. When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. ~ Alfred Hitchcock
39. The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light. ~ Shel Silverstein
40. I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one – that she won't say it back. ~ Alex Flinn
Author and Credits: Tess Marshall