Giovanni Falcone Quotes

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what's happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

The fears you run from run to you.