How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.