“A man conquers his fears by growing in faith.”
“Pain and fear are useful, and people who lack them are seriously handicapped. As noted already, the rare individuals who are born without the sense of pain are almost all dead by age thirty. If there are people born without the capacity for fear, you might well look for them in the emergency room or the morgue. We need our pains and our fears. They are normal defenses that warn us of danger. Pain is the signal that tissue is being damaged. It has to be aversive to motivate us to set aside other activities to do whatever is necessary to stop the damage. Fear is a signal that a situation may be dangerous, that some kind of loss or damage is likely, that escape is desirable.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“I think that what has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been a deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory,” [Hersey] said in 1986, in a rare interview. “The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”
Source: Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
“It's as though human emotions have speed limits, and their tipping points vary depending on the person and which cog(nitive) gear is set: So typically, men go off the rails briefly when they're furious, whereas women, when they're frightened; but children while excited.”
“Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.”
Source: Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress
“Je me fous d’avoir peur, je veux juste t’aimer.”
Source: Outdoor
“You're right to hide your children from me, she wanted to say. I am the monster you fear.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Each challenge does bring with with it an opportunity, but we must diligently search for it. We tend to look only at the source of the crisis and its impact-and react with fear. We often forget to look ahead to how that challenge can transform us into better and stronger people.”
Source: Embrace Life, Embrace Hope: Cultivating Wholeness and Resilience through the Unexpected
“But he couldn't think of it that way. Evie and Samantha weren't dead. They were just somewhere else. Somewhere he couldn't go. What was the difference between that and death?”
Source: The Night Burns Bright
“Either my family is cursed or we are just horrible fucking people, but either way, we are a fucking curse.”
Source: Sick Kids in Love