Kiernan Shipka Quotes

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.

the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.

It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.

My worst expectations never happened.

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Everyone worries about their kids, of course, but you can drive yourself nuts thinking about all the horrible things in the world - and many, many people do. I believe life is to be lived and not survived.

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.