Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.

I very strongly dislike fear. I always say fear keeps us from living our lives and doing the things we want to do.

Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.

The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

I have no fear, I have only love

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear.

Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

Life begins where fear ends.