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...

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.

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

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things....

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its...

The market is fraught with indecision, a little bit of anxiety. People recognize summer is coming up and things sort of drift. The market has had a bit of a recovery and now we have...

When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness. . . . The wilderness is the place where God...

Every time you try to do something that anxiety wants to stop you from doing, you’ve struck a blow that will make the anxiety weaker.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we’ve violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret—regret is useless.

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude; play with it and introduce it.

You’re surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don’t notice me.

Sometimes when you press, you have high anxiety, and it affects the way you perform.

Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don’t bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you want to ensure their safety in your life. The bird knows where it...

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I’m like a duck–paddling, paddling, paddling.

Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her...

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

What if I turned out to be a great kisser, and suddenly, girls everywhere wanted to kiss me? Did I really want to risk losing my free time to watch people so I could kiss...

It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of...

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else’s snakes can ever be as awful.

We don’t make a big deal about it. We don’t want to create test anxiety.

The market has weathered a poor earnings period and increased anthrax anxiety and has come out of it pretty well. I’m encouraged. The imminent economic stimulus package and Federal Reserve cuts are providing further encouragement,

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety,...

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all...

Sometimes when I really like something, or try to do or experience something, I get all anxious about the end before it even begins. I was doing it again. This is really hard to put...

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

If fretting was an Olympic sport, I’d own the gold medal

[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn’t about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know...

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I...

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.

I begin to learn there are certain things I shouldn’t tell her. Like when we meet boys at Dorrian’s and I give mine a blow job, or the time I messed around with a boy...

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if you’re lucky, a doctor who has an unusual amount of sense-stranger than the hallucinations, or the voices,...

the prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.

Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.

After everything that’s happened, her fear of requesting a prescription or of asking Trevor about his mother baffles her. Shouldn’t life-altering events make you less afraid of the little stuff? But it’s the little stuff...

In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in...

Note to Self – Thoughts design my energy!MythoughtsWILLdesign the energythat movesme!

The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart...

We’re much more upbeat now than a few weeks ago when there was a sort of creeping anxiety.