Bill Wilson Quotes

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Steve-O's awesome because some animals he's afraid of, but he doesn't try to act like he's not scared.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes.

I'm not afraid to say what I'm afraid of. Does that make me fearless?

I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good. The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult voice sometimes cannot. We are so often wrapped in the garment of trying to reassure ourselves that we are not afraid.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.