Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

I love the storm and fear the calm.

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

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

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

Every single day I wake up in the morning, and I wonder if this is some kind of amazing dream that's gonna end all of a sudden. And, you know, I'm gonna wake up and be somewhere else.

I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

I tend to scare myself.