Love Quote by Kate Seredy

Seredy writes like someone who’s watched worry metastasize from a private tremor into a life-shaping force. The line isn’t gentle encouragement; it’s a miniature exorcism. Doubt becomes a snake, fear becomes worms - not passing moods, but invasive creatures living inside you. That choice matters. By turning emotion into vermin, Seredy gives the reader permission to treat inner hesitation as something unnatural, something you don’t negotiate with. You eradicate it.

The violence is the point. “Kill,” “crush” - these are commands, not affirmations, and they suggest a worldview forged in proximity to real upheaval. Seredy, a Hungarian-born writer who immigrated to the United States between the world wars, carried the memory of a Europe where “fear in your heart” wasn’t metaphorical. In that light, the quote reads less like motivational poster copy and more like survival rhetoric dressed as inspiration: you cannot afford to romanticize anxiety when history is busy flattening the weakly defended.

Then comes the payoff: “mountains will move out of your way.” It’s biblical scale, but the mechanics are psychological. Mountains don’t relocate; your posture toward them does. The subtext is that obstacles are partly made of perception, and fear is an accomplice that enlarges them. Remove the internal saboteurs and the external world looks different - not magically easier, but newly negotiable.

There’s also a quiet moral edge: responsibility is inside the self. Seredy isn’t blaming the victim; she’s insisting on agency, the only antidote available when circumstances refuse to be kind.