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.

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.

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

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.

ANXIETY i will transform you into something useful and productive. I will not bow down to you. ~THE END

The surest antidote for anxiety is to always do your best and have complete trust in God.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

Free your hearts of anxiety, pain and anger, to have peace within your heart and soul.

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children. This sounds noble on the surface but in fact it’s doing no one–...

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

If you focus your mind on problem, the problem would become bigger and bigger and you get into the circle of worrying and then your mind gives you the false impression that the problem is...

Mix a little time with some space, and suddenly good things fall right into place. No worries, don’t doubt it – just build!

Badger had been waiting with ever increasing certainty for that brown, government stamped envelope, to hit the floor with the impact of several atomic bombs; the shockwaves hitting him before the sound could penetrate his...

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation...

Sometimes it’s better to look at things than own them… owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

It’s hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don’t exist.

The soul is “torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Once he traveled to a village to purchase a large rice harvest, but when he arrived the rice had already been sold to another tradesman. Nevertheless, Siddhartha remained in this village for several days; he...