They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh,the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave.
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Related We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ... MITCH ALBOM Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON - The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?' - Yes. - My Imagination. - I thou... STEPHEN KING Don't be scared," Willa Mae said. I looked at her. "Aren't you scared?" Willa Mae looked a... MARGARET MCMULLAN The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred ti... DONALD MILLER The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?" Yes." My Imagination." I thought yo... STEPHEN KING We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the... TARUN BETALA It's the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you," she said simply. "You know ... KIERA CASS Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thi... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN We feel that it is important for us to connect as a family and since we leave at different times in ... SANDY SMITH When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally differ... KRISTEN CROCKETT It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be k... DENNIS KUCINICH Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us liv... DAN PEARCE What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When... CHARLES WRIGHT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT ... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear i... BERNARD BECKETT We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arr... LEIGH BARDUGO I hear a lot of people say that the fear of death and the fear of public speaking are two of the mai... JEFFERSON BETHKE That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing i... SIMONE WEIL There is no such thing as fear until you allow it to enter your heart. If I told you what really hap... SUZY KASSEM Our freedom to say or write whatever we please in this country is holy to me. It is a rare privilege... KURT VONNEGUT PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary. DEVIN J. MONROE The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelin... LEO F. BUSCAGLIA It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that... CHARLES EISENSTEIN Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
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We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere ... AKSHAY VASU Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed th... SAMUEL BECKETT Most of us don't think the amount of money we have in our back pocket is the only thing that is good... ANDREW MOORE Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we ha... MARLEE MATLIN But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe ... PETER KREEFT God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it u... CORRIE TEN BOOM The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and s... ALBERT EINSTEIN — This world is full of trouble, umfundisi. — Who knows it better? — Yet you believ... ALAN PATON Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. TERRY BROOKS This satsang (association with the Self) is the only thing that can establish a state that is free o... DADA BHAGWAN This is your last chance to do the right thing.' 'Do you want to attack first, or will I?' DEREK LANDY I just can't believe that life would give us to each other," he said, "and then take it back." ... RAINBOW ROWELL This team seems to be focused. They know what it will take and if we continue to do that we have a c... DENNIS STONEQUIST Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect whe... JOHN WAYNE Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect whe... JOHN WAYNE Our sins live with us for eternity, and that is perhaps the most frightening thing of all. - Sims SIMON HOLT In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... We all got pushed into doing some bad stuff. And some people would blame all of that stuff on their ... CHRISTINE WHITMARSH It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on prob... THOMAS à KEMPIS He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sou... BRANDON SANDERSON But I came to learn that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He let... IMMACULéE ILIBAGIZA We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us. We dare not talk of the fire, for ... LUCY H. PEARCE Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of m... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD It has well been said that an opinion is something that you hold, but a conviction is something that... WARREN W. WIERSBE I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a... JIM ELLIOT TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human histor... HOWARD ZINN Max." Fang let go of my hand. "Right now, it's really all about—us." He swooped down t... JAMES PATTERSON They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us ... KAMAND KOJOURI Inside us all are pieces of that which makes the neagitve. Demons are neither good nor bad. Like you... SHERRILYN KENYON Shit!"Holly said when our eyes fell on her bra lying at our feet. I snatched it from the ground, try... JULIE CROSS All year, the thing that has kept us in games is our defense. But on Friday night, we broke down on ... KRAIG CLIFTON What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke, that he does not beli... BLAISE PASCAL When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. A... SHERMAN ALEXIE Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasi... JOHN GREEN Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasi... JOHN GREEN Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to ma... OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they li... ANDRé GIDE We’re all scared. Yes, all of us. I’m afraid every day. If I’m not afraid, I must n... RICHIE NORTON My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often ... JOYCE CARY A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r... PAULO COELHO God has not given us the spirit of fear. He has given us the spirit of Love and a competent mind. ELLEN J. BARRIER He would always tell us to never let our guard down. At times, we would tell him, 'You're so uptight... KATE ACHTER None of us wanted to believe it as it unfolded. We all crossed the line at different times. There wa... DOMINIC DIPUCCIO To care means first of all to empty our own cup and to allow the other to come close to us. It means... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a di... DAVID BELLE I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY Throughout our times with Christopher [therapist] we were encouraged to work together at communicati... CAROLYN BRAMHALL The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that conn... BRENé BROWN
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HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra... HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly... HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee... HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer,... HARUKI MURAKAMI