"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

Stephen King

"It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others."

—Marianne Williamson (Our Greatest Fear from the book "Return To Love", 1992)

"It is sometimes a mistake to make the climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you climb, you can either succeed or fall. But there is a third option: Sometimes when you fall, you find out you can fly."
 –NG
(via Benjamin LaBrot, founder of Floating Doctors)

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

-- Herodotus (485 - 425BC) 

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice. 


Lao Tzu

"Fear came knocking on the door. Faith answered; no one was there."

"Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice."

-- John McCain

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire

"Where there is love and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance."

----- Saint Francis

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"

Aldous Huxley

"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. "

-- Calvin Coolidge

"Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day. While life is not always fair, it is manageable. It's a matter of attitude and confidence."
~Mario Andretti

"It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving."

(Henrietta Mears)

"Don’t be cool.Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort."

~ from Bruce Mau Design's "Incomplete Manifesto"