I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I love imperfections.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

We do not judge the people we love.