No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I read more

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy
den, and none returning.
[Lat., Quia ne read more

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy
den, and none returning.
[Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent
Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men read more

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.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.