Quotes of: Fearing Keyword

In the course of aesthetic experience, the perceiver may be overwhelmed by this 'mere object', overcome with emotion, altered to the very roots of his being.[...] The experience of beauty involves an exchange of power, and as such, it is often disori...

Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art

We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words anymore, but in colors, in smells, in waves of memory. Right what you care about. Don’t write one more word you don’t care a...

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life

I am so unimaginably sorry for doing what I am going to do, but you see I have all these fears. The fears and doubts I have are so real, so are they really as childish and silly as you always say they are. Sometimes, I am sad and so bitterly lonely a...

Would you remember Me

If you were determined to get enjoyment out of every moment, you would learn to do whatever it took. What it takes is not listening to negative thoughts, yours or anyone else's. Disregarding negative thoughts isn't hiding our head in the sand, but si...

What about Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

What does it mean to be the master of your own soul, the captain of your own mind? It means that you keep the final say on what you think, feel and do. No one fearful thought can overtake you, no one doubtful feeling can overthrow you from your path,...

C. JoyBell C.

Raoul Duke: When I came to, the general back-alley ambience of the suite was so rotten, so incredibly foul. How long had I been lying there? All these signs of violence. What had happened? There was evidence in this room of excessive consumption of a...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Sirius Black: Fudge is using all his power, including his influence at the Daily Prophet, to smear anyone who claims the Dark Lord has returned. Harry Potter: Why? Remus Lupin: The Minister thinks Dumbledore's after his job. Harry Potter: But that's ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Yoda: Premonitions, premonitions. These visions you have... Anakin Skywalker: They are of pain, suffering. Death. Yoda: Yourself you speak of, or someone you know? Anakin Skywalker: Someone. Yoda: Close to you? Anakin Skywalker: Yes. Yoda: Careful yo...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Cast In Courtlight

When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about.

Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

Fear causes problems in your life because it fogs the lens through which you see yourself and your world.

Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The Conquest of Happiness

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

Champion

I always feared finding myself thinking about all the things I could have done, about all the things I was so close to doing.

The Covert Perspective

Fear pushes us down; joy picks us up!" (EL)

A Cup of Grace for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

Clockwork Prince

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the determination to control and overcome it.

Children of the Apocalypse, Second Edition: Volume One: West Port

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

The Child Thief

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

The Complete Works

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Democracy in America