“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”

“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.”

“Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.”

“The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do”

“Sometimes the fear of failure steals the beauty we were meant to create.”

“Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.”