The level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.

Brené Brown

Fear of failure is the saddest reason on earth not to do what you were meant to do.

J.K. Rowling

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must do everything in our power to cease the behavior that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Alice Walker

Fear does not stop death. It stops life.

Vi Keeland

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen