Byron Katie Quotes

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

You're always afraid of losing what you have. Regardless of success or anything, you're always afraid.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you-" "no. Gideon." jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

I'm really insecure about everything.

We are afraid of losing what we have.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

I was wracked with insecurity.

I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

I'm very insecure.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?