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Stash the cash and stop being flash if you want to give being wealthy a bash!
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Soup is cozy.
— A.D. Posey
Each of us channel through the rest of us, which is true on every plane of being and in every field of enterprise and in all walks of life.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
All we are in possession of is the result of the snowballing attitude of our minds.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
When it comes to manifesting anything you desire, sometimes you have to go and collect.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
As the Universe brings your desires towards you, sometimes you must take the path it lays out for you so that you can be in the right place to receive it.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Positive words can bend your world in your favor.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Millionaires, though, see objects like diamonds and good feelings merely as fruits. The root of true wealth, in fact, stems from your behaviors.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
When you are able to identify what drives you, you will be better equipped to draw out your possible options and make the relevant decisions that will help you achieve your goals.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Discovering how the Universe will manifest all of your dreams for you is going to be an exciting journey that will harmonize the trinity of your mind, body and spirit.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Creating abundance must start from within ourselves.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Leaving your future to pot luck is holding you back, you are worth more than anything, yet why do you leave everything to chance?
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Your level of vibration runs parallel with your feelings, meaning you are in control of your life and the events that come into your life at any given moment.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Base your self-esteem on truth.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Gratitude raises your awareness and focus and it can inspire you to achieve better for yourself and the people around you.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Once you realize that everything in the Universe is connected then you will have a better understanding of the fundamental nature of manifesting.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
What is energy? Everything is energy.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
The higher the vibration, the more positive the events or people you attract and likewise.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Time is manmade! It is simply an invention! Believe it or not, time only exists here on earth for us humans.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Your attitudes towards others affect what you think about yourself.
— Stephen Richards
The second step that comes right after taking responsibility for everything that occurs in your life is to let go of all that you do not feel good about.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
The first step to reclaim your power to control your own life is to take responsibility for your life completely.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
To make initial inroads into manifesting a new life, first one has to acknowledge their current life.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Just as you first eat with your eyes, you also first desire things with your subconscious mind!
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
No matter what you say to someone else, you always hear it first.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
A thoughtform is rather like electricity … it must first be created and then discharged in order to exist.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Just think how many thousands of years nature has spent sculpting rocks for us! I can tell you, I have learned that just because it was that way yesterday, it does not mean that it should be that way tomorrow.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Unlocking the power of your subconscious mind is a simple process, requiring only your willingness and effort.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Being able to unlock your subconscious mind depends on knowing what you want before you can achieve it.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
One BIG thing you overlooked when setting out on living the adventure of being wealthy was that you overlooked your current reality!
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Imagine repeating the power words ‘love’ or ‘happiness’ for five minutes twice a day for the rest of your life, amazing things could happen.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
You can create financial abundance by having a positive relationship with money.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Everything is energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed or mutated from one form to another.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
When you begin to entertain the more positive possibilities, hope for the best, plan for the best and expect the best, your eventual attraction of the best possible circumstances is almost guaranteed.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor rejects others' presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
Do not recite words just to prove to yourself and others that you know and love God; for he already put his breath and light inside you. Instead, put truth in your every word and action, and always let your conscience steer and guide you.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans. Bad bacteria in the gut creates neurological issues. Autism can be cured by detoxifying the bellies of young children. People who think that feelings come from the heart are wrong. The gut is where you feel the loss of a loved one first. It's where you feel pain and a heavy bulk of your emotions. It's the central base of your entire immune system. If your gut is loaded with negative bacteria, it affects your mind. Your heart is the seat of your conscience. If your mind is corrupted, it affects your conscience. The heart is the Sun. The gut is the Moon. The pineal gland is Neptune, and your brain and nervous system (5 senses) are Mercury. What affects the moon or sun affects the entire universe within. So, if you poison the gut, it affects your entire nervous system, your sense of reasoning, and your senses.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When the world shifts its focus on heart over mind, we will finally experience a beautiful global village for our children.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I had less and became more.
— Nikki Rowe
The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
O Heavenly Children, God has blessed you all with many treasures that only the most purehearted already know. His fruitful garden is vast and without measure, and in your own very bodies, He has planted metals of copper, silver and gold.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Shame is the undercurrent that keeps you living in the belief that you are unworthy of all the bounty life has to offer. Somewhere along the way, we have internalized the belief that we are - in our deepest selves - defective and wrong. Shame is not a natural emotion. Babies aren’t born feeling shame. We manufacture it within ourselves, as punishment for not adhering to the norms of society…Just for today, see what it feels like to open those clenched fists - that clenched heart - and receive every good thing
— Panache Desai, Discovering Your Soul Signature: A 33-Day Path to Purpose, Passion & Joy
Do not get down on your knees to pray just to show God that you always remember him. Instead stay on your feet, and always do as he would do in place of him.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Never forget that there is a soul within you, which loves you very much ,only because it's you.
— Munia Khan
Know this Mr. Davis. I am not crazy. I am not sane. I am not alive. I am not dead. I am not even the human being who you call Dr. Vigo Andersen. I was never born and I will never die. I am an eternal being. I am that I am. This, what you call reality, is just a collective dream. I was about to wake up from it permanently when I was yanked back into this temporal space. I did not try to kill myself. I tried to wake up.
— Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
It’s okay to experience the flow of all emotions; however, if we get caught up in feeling pity for others and take on the responsibility of being their ‘savior’, we often take away their power to ‘save’ themselves. If I see someone as ‘messed up’ then I am projecting my ‘messed up’ vibration onto them, so I am unable to hold space. Yet, if I already view them as whole, well, and beautiful – then I am able to be a vibrational key (vessel of Spirit) that uplifts their energy so that it may come into alignment with being whole, well, and beautiful. It’s not that I do any of the healing; I’m simply a mirror reflecting acceptance and loving them for exactly who they are, right where they are. That is all that is ever truly asked of us, to accept and to love.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
I might live a life of struggle but I will not live a life of defeat!
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
In my experiences, the common critic of Christianity, when he thinks of Christianity, imagines a sort of elementary, Sunday School blunder of elements: fiery Hell, an angry God, 'try not to sin', 'be good so that you can go to Heaven', absurd miracles, hyper-fundamentalist tales, religious hypocrites, and Jesus telling people not to judge. There is no horse more dead than such. I maintain that understanding Christianity and the Bible is quite like painting a piece of art. Let a toddler paint a puppy; then let an adult who is a long-time painter paint the very same puppy. They are both paintings of the puppy, but one is far more detailed, rational, realistic, and believable than the other. One is distorted and comical; the other is proportional and lively. One can write off Theology if he so pleases, but he might not be very wise in using the toddler's painting when it comes time to identify the real puppy or when trying to confront actual men of the Faith.
— Criss Jami
People pull on a smile as if it were just another accessory. It might as well be a tie than a smile.
— Vadim Zeland, Reality transurfing. Steps I-V
Fly free spirits fly, for if you reach heaven before me, then at least I know to this world I have more love to apply. " ~ Roy Hale
— Roy Hale
Abundance does not come in packages, it comes from the happiness within.
— Stephen Richards
Freedom of will is our birthright.
— Jean Moreau, Abbey of Kervennec, France
The perfect person isn't what you're being asked to be, but a beautiful soul will suffice. " ~ Roy Hale
— Roy Hale
Foretold by ancient seers and now by scientists, we are at the unprecedented historic and evolutionary crossroad. We have the capacity to transform ourselves spiritually and our civilisation materially or de-evolve into an Orwellian nightmare
— Jonathan R. Banks, A New World: The Science of Higher Dimensional Computation and Metaphysics
Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are no more human than a driver is the car he is driving. You would never go to a junkyard to look for the driver would you?
— Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
None of us understand the infinite universe. Most people who start thinking about it, get overwhelmed, shrug their shoulders, and turn their attention back to something mundane, like drinking beer or watching TV. Only a few great minds have ever actually contemplated the nature of the universe. Fewer still have done it without going insane.
— Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
When the patient began speaking, Robert continued, he sounded unlike any person I have ever met before. Sure, his actions signaled that he was crazy, but his presence… Jessica, his presence was like what I imagine it would be to be close to a holy person or a spiritual master. I mean, that is really the only conclusion I can come to.And the holy guy tried to kill himself? Come on Robert. That just sounds ridiculous.
— Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
One can travel the world and experience a lot of different things. But until all corners of the mind are openly explored does one gain deeper insight to the essence of living!~
— Bobby Adair Compton
Foreword of my book: The Pawn“It is being said that time and space could be tied to their creator’s stance of what they are to him or her. It can possibly be perceived by those who become the receivers of this viewpoint as something different or the same.” (Claire Manning Writer/Author 2016)
— Claire Hamelin Manning, The Pawn: Could you have lived before this life?
You are wrong about that, you know, Dr. Andersen replied calmly. This, right here—us talking, sitting in this overlit room, a bunch of shrinks watching us through the tinted windows—this is the dream. The peace you felt before, that is reality. It is the I. The only part of existence that does not change, that cannot change, that will not change. You may not be ready to understand this quite yet, but if you continue meditating, you will.
— Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
I had been thinking about becoming a business owner for some time, but I didn't have the confidence to pursue it. My parents encouraged the idea, and I had scoffed at them irritably. I wanted the job security that a nine-to-five would provide me. But now I could see that security, both in the office world and beyond, was a myth. You could do everything right, but nothing would come to you if it wasn't Krishna's will.
— Samita Sarkar, I Am the Ocean
Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me.
— Jean Moreau, Abbey of Kervennec, France
Faith and hope remove worry, anxiety, and fear. Human life becomes very painful and burdensome if a person has no one to trust and love. Then why should it bother an atheist, if a mother who just has lost her child, takes up a doll of baby Jesus or Krishna and pampers it like her own child, while in the process she actually succeeds in coping with her traumatic situation!
— Abhijit Naskar, The Spirituality Engine
Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
There is no excuse good enough to ever be out of alignment with love. You’re going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart. Love is a Divine gift given to humanity. Wasting it is no longer an option. Love is what brings light to a dark place. Love is what transforms a dying world into a thriving planet.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Serenity within the chaos of life is there to be discovered, just look within yourself for it.
— Stephen Richards
Her joyful spirit would bring laughter and happiness to anyone in her life with the same natural ease that a rose blooms and sheds its perfume.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
Each stage of your lifeis like petals of a flower... unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending.
— Summerlyn Guthrie
Funny thing about the darkness... It can be defeated by the dimmest shimmer of light!So on your darkest days let even a little bit of light in
— Summerlyn Guthrie
Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!
— Stephen Richards
We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.
— Aleksandra Layland, Bind Not the Heart: A Windflower Saga Novella
A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. Likewise, no person should think “my perception of the reality is the only absolute reality, and all others’ are false”, because each human brain has its own unique way of perceiving the reality.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.
— Neville Goddard
Materialism allows for a greater vision!
— Stephen Richards
The trees were his chapel and the hillsides his cathedral.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution.
— M. Scott Peck
First of all, no messiahs are sent. Secondly, no messiah got it. Lastly, no messiah is. And if there ever was or is, maybe I too am it. As too is every dimwit.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
In modern neurotheology we examine the physical bases to spiritual, religious and mystical experiences and beliefs, that implicitly appear to reduce this rich phenomenology to only neuronal functions. So, the thing is, there was no divine intervention necessary in the evolution of spirituality and religiosity. “Human Brain is the true God of all beliefs”.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurosutra: The Abhijit Naskar Collection
I wish to walk and keep the ways of God
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am like the H2O in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it “water”, others at another place and call it “jal”, and some others at a third place and call it “pani”. The Christians call it “water”, the Hindus “jal”, and the Muslims ”pani”. But it is one and the same thing. I am not tied to the doctrines of any church, synagogue, temple or mosque, yet I am the reason of their birth.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
Your spiritual goals can be as numerous as there are stars in the sky. And so can be your religions. But in all your vivid and diverse paths of practicing religion and spirituality, there is one very common and simple element that knows no bounds. That element is the eternal bliss that enables you to attain unimaginable feats of excellence. It is not tied to any scripture of yours, yet it is in every scripture of yours.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits.
— Abhijit Naskar, Biopsy of Religions: Neuroanalysis Towards Universal Tolerance
I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian faith, have long since robbed you of faith in the immortality of your spirit, you have nevertheless left one tenant undisturbed, and still ingenuously adhere to the one truth, that the spirit is your better part, and that the spiritual has greater claims on you than anything else
— Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
The sea is as desolate and barren as it is fertile and life-giving. It is cold and dismal, yet bold and spirited. Sometimes imperious and conquering, other times gentle and meek. But it is always mysterious. Those mysteries hold many secrets. One has but to listen and watch to discover them
— Jocelyn  Murray, The English Pirate
Contrast is not ‘bad’ since the contrast we experience still causes us to learn and grow. Expansion never ceases, and that is a beautiful thing. Contrast allows us to see what is not in alignment with our Authentic Selves, and then presents us with opportunity after opportunity to respond from a place of compassion, forgiveness, acceptance, love, joy, gratitude, etc. Thus, when we break the karmic loop we swing back into alignment with Spirit.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Fairy tales and stories of fantasy bridge the gap and inspires the heart and mind wherever religious thought reaches its limits or meets a dead end. In other words, fairy tales are spiritual in nature, rising above set dogmas and traditions to provide a modern and universal spiritual nourishment for the human soul.
— Alaric Hutchinson
The war going on within you is a reflection of every war that has ever taken place… past, present, and future. Each individual is a Spiritual Warrior and there is only one demon you must conquer…your SELF. You are the devil and you are the savior. You are a human with free will, and every morning you wake up and you make a choice.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Wonders demonstrate the power of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is the heavenly light of joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Jesus Christ is the Son of Man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May you be filled with fullness of grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don’t break a neck looking up for God. Try looking down at inspiring human deeds.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Fear doesn't shut you down
—  it wakes you up
Fear cuts deeper than swords.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. 
— Plato
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
— Emma Donoghue, Room
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
— Jim Morrison
Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
— Nelson Mandela
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand — and she hurried on. “I feel now as if the same is happening, only not to characters on a page but to my own beloved friends and companions. I do not want to sit by while tragedy comes for us. I would turn it aside, only I struggle to discover how that might be done.”“You fear for Jem,” Will said.“Yes,” she said. “And I fear for you, too.”“No,” Will said, hoarsely. “Don’t waste that on me, Tess.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
— James     Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
She had blue skin,And so did he.He kept it hidAnd so did she.They searched for blueTheir whole life through,Then passed right by-And never knew.
— Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
— Taylor Swift
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart," Valentine's voice was soft. "One simple motion. Nothing you haven't done before."Jace met his father's stare with a level gaze. "I saw Agramon," he said. "It had your 
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...
— Stephen King
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
— Aristotle
That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
— Joseph Campbell
Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feetdeep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the longnight, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little childrenare born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt andhungry, and the white walkers move through the woods
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.
— Lemony Snicket
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
— Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
— Marie Curie
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
In time we hate that which we often fear.
— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
— Audre Lorde
Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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, East of Eden
The man who fears losing has already lost.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
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. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.
— Gerald G. Jampolsky
Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
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, Unpopular Essays
Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
— Alfred Hitchcock
All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...
— Lady Gaga
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are still afraidSo it is better to speakrememberingwe were never meant to survive
— Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?
— Lemony Snicket
Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.
— Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
— Michelle Obama
One is never afraid of the unknown one is afraid of the known coming to an end. 
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
— Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
I tend to scare myself.
— Stephen King
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.
— Brom, The Child Thief
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.
— Audre Lorde
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
— Paulo Coelho
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
— Plato
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?
— Don DeLillo
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
— Ray Bradbury
Best way to deal with fear is to confront it.
— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.
— Will Smith
I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.
— Tana French, In the Woods
The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.
— Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire
Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.
— Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.
— Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
— Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of  Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound. 
— Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
— Paulo Coelho
If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.
— Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
— Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.
— Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. 
— Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
— Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
A coward talks to everyone but YOU.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
— Stephen King, It
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
— Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful
— Warren Buffett
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
— James Joyce
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
— Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear
She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.
— R.M. Drake
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.
— Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
— Kahlil Gibran
Fear is the mind-killer.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
— Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works
When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.
— Jenny  Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
— Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
— Ivo Andrić
My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.
— Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
— Jules Renard
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear and it is of all things degrading. 
— L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
— T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.
— Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan, Vol. 1
Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail