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20 Quotes On Fear And How It Often Stops You From Living And Loving

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. 
Rania Naim
October 13, 2016
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Life, Challenge, Overcoming Adversity, Change, Failure, Bouncing Back, Resilience, strength
“But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. ”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Criticisms, Approval, Judgments, Society, People, Fear
“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Health, Stress, Anxiety, Fear
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Dreams, Goals, Fear
“Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but ‘safe’ isn’t one of them.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Tagged: Second Chances, heart, Love, Heart On The Line, Risk, Safety, Relationships, Dating, Single Life
“Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That’s the hardest part and that’s what you are responsible for.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: The Journey, The Path, Taking Risks, First Steps
“We fear the future will mirror our past, because we are born to believe that history repeats itself. But human beings are not history, they reinvent themselves instead of repeating themselves.”
— Rania Naim, Read This If You’re Terrified Of The Future
Tagged: Future, Fear, Past, Repetition
“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: This Lullaby, Relationships, Love, Hiding, Fear
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: chances, Adventure, Risk
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."”
— Seth Godin
Tagged: Postive, Scared, Overcoming Fear, Fear, Inspirational
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Failure Quotes, Fear Of Failing, Fear
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Tagged: Fear, Living, Life, Afraid
“Only a fool is never afraid. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done.”
— Meg Cabot, Abandon Book 2: Underworld
Tagged: Fool, Fear, Hero, Brave
“Look, maybe... this challenges what you thought you were. And... maybe I'm gonna get my heart broken in a thousand different pieces. But those are maybes. You can't live your life according to maybes.”
— Poussey Washington, Orange Is the New Black: "Season 4, Episode 06"
Tagged: OITNB, Life, Love, Risk, In love, Maybe, Uncertainty, Inspirational, Dating, Commitment
“To fear love, is to fear life.”
— Bertrand Russell, Commune with Your Heart
Tagged: Soothing Love, Soothing Heart, Love, Fear, Life
“But if you don’t try, you’ll still wake up every day wondering, you’ll still stare at your phone waiting, you’ll still ask yourself questions you’ll never know the answers to. Because taking risks is not only part of life, it’s also an essential part of love.”
— Rania Naim, If You Don’t Try, You’ll Never Know
Tagged: Taking Risks, Taking Chances, Love, Trying
“If you're not scared then you're not taking a chance. And if you're not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing anyway?”
— Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother, Season 5: The Window
Tagged: Future, Change, Fear, Scared, Moving On, Life
“Stop thinking that everyone is having more sex than you, that everyone has more friends than you, that everyone out is having more fun than you. Not because it’s not true (it might be!) but because that kind of thinking leaves you frozen.”
— Ryan O'Connell, You're Not Making The Most Out Of Your Twenties
Tagged: Sex, Relationships, Envy, Friendship, Friends, Jealousy, Change, Fear
“If you don't tell her how you feel she'll find some other guy that will tell her all the things she wanted to hear from you.”
— Unknown, Instagram
Tagged: Feelings, Relationships, Dating, Love, Fear
“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
— Osho, Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear
Tagged: Love, Pain, Fear