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I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.
I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness.
I've learned to separate my fears from my intuition and, at times, to follow my intuition through the fear.
You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.
Now I have normal-person fears - fears of failure, of not being smart enough or strong enough or kind enough.
I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.
In many ways, Trump appeals to people's smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.
Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Asking your children about their fears or worries about going back to school will help them share their burden.
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
We must have the right to name our fears and laugh at those who seek to scare us - or risk giving in to terrorists.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
I'd say that in place of a singular phobic-level terror, I keep a whole collection of running, yet manageable, fears.
I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
I have had the fortune of seeing very glamorous and beautiful woman close up and I have seen their fears and insecurity.
Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.
My two great fears are either not working or working on something that means you can't do something else you really want.
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
Canadians must fight back against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab.
I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.
However beautiful a woman may be, she gets cold feet, she gets angry, she fears, she has insecurity - she is a human being.
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.