“Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.”

“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.”

Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player

“tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

“The beginning dictates the direction and you never know where you're going to go … the mood is what you're looking for, and somehow we always find it.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“What would I do without you?
You're never going to find out.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

“The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84