Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don’t know who to fear. Isn’t that why god was invented?

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

I'm a fallible human being - but if I were to react to that knowledge with fear/defensiveness then how would I move forward?

Mtu aliyepoteza kazi na mke na watoto wake kuuwawa kwa mfano, watu wanapaswa kuwa makini na yeye, ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.

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.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.

Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.