I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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