When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the ‘true colors’ of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different...

Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

I’ve had a lot of therapists, so I’ve had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I’ve faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do!Your life mainly consists of 3 things! What you think, What you say and What you do!So always be very conscious of what you...

Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to ‘flick the switch’ to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only...

Worry is worthless. It can’t change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

If you don’t do what you love, you will never love what you do. And if you don’t love whatever you do, you are likely to be worried anytime a duty is assigned to you...

Recipe for a WorryTake one pound morbid preoccupation and mix vigorously with one cup overactive imagination. In a separate bowl, add one part hypersensitivity to three parts increased hormone activity. Fold together and let stew...

It’s like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay… well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn’t-...

This will sound strange, and yet I’m sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round...

When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic...

…the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

All relationship systems become anxious. People put together and inevitably anxiety will arise. Anxiety can be infectious. We can give it to others or catch it from them. What precisely triggers anxiety is unique to...

I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they...

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live...

Sustained negative flashbacks can stir a heart attack.

Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated...

There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later as old friends and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about...

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high...

We thought it was wrongheaded and the amount of anxiety caused by this review was significant, … We stopped the VA from going backward, but we still need to move forward.

re-living” the past in our minds, thus dishonouring the present moment. The young monk wasted hours distressing himself with judgment, speculation, anxiety, resentment and ultimately self-perpetuated unhappiness as a direct result of not being mindful.

Like an attack this melancholy comes from time to time. I don’t know at what intervals, and slowly covers my sky with clouds. It begins with an unrest in the heart, with a premonition of...

I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven’t been able to do it alone, that’s defeat right? But do a couple pills change why I’m here? Will my spirit be altered? Do my passions...

A lot of anxiety is created by people when they think about filing their tax return. It’s like going to the dentist. Just do it and get it over with.

Freedom is anxiety’s petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, “Even if you don’t want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen correctly.”...

Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don’t give it away.

I still get plenty anxious. The weird thing, and the unpleasant surprise for me, of proceeding well into the middle, perhaps even post-prime of my career is that writing books has not got any easier....

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

That early goal (in the second period) really took us another notch down in terms of anxiety that we had. We started to skate more freely and do the things were capable of. That was...

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

But I’m not going to dwell on it or feel sorry for myself and build up anxiety. You take it for what it is.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

I don’t like this ideaIt is too much focuson something I am trying to forgetI am afraidthat this attention to detailwill only fuel my anxiety

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won’t spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a...

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than...

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

We periodically return to the throne of God for a transfusion of reality. It helps us recall that the redemption of mankind doesn’t depend on us. Sometimes we lose sight of that. A visit back...