Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

There is a huge difference between danger and fear.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

Why should he who is scared be careful?

I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

Fear loves the idea of danger.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.