If a transaction in progress appeared threatened with failure, if a shipment of goods seemed to have gone astray, or if a debtor appeared unable to repay his debt, Kamaswami was never able to persuade...

There’s no work so tirin’ as danglin’ about an’ starin’ an’ not rightly knowin’ what you’re goin’ to do next; and keepin’ your face i’ smilin’ order like a grocer o’ market-day for fear people...

I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.

My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and...

When anxiety comes knocking on your door, don’t invite it in.

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness,...

Beliefs are physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biology.

Something is missing, and it’s something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a lack of work, or too much work, or a lack of adequate child...

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me...

Want to know who I am?Your responses indicate that you have a normal desire to share yourself with others. However, this need is not being adequately fulfilled at present.As a result, you unconsciously attempt to...

People who are diagnosed as having “generalized anxiety disorder” are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural...

Nothing happens on its own, you have to make things happen. If you really want to come out of your stressful situation than you need to take action. Unless you stand up for yourself and...

As for the fear, you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Prison left me with some strange little tics.’ She has taken all the door off their hinges in all the apartments she has lived in since. It’s not that she has anxiety attacks about small...

I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn’t a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

This is the hour I hide everythingBehind my eyesTo see if you can seeAll the trouble my brain’s been brewing. Yes, I feel I am the worst and you are the bestAnd yet, and yet,...

I didn’t look over my shoulder; there wasn’t a sound behind me on the pavement, but I knew he was coming slowly after me. The crawl of the skin up and down my back told...

He meant everything he said, when he said it. But this is his default. And it won out. Right now you’re depressed about one thing. Before you were depressed about everything. These are good times...

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed… Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

I hope we gave them that sense of belonging because I know there’ll be times in their lives when grasping at those bonds could mean the difference between making it and not.

I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

feel-good” hormones lift our spirits, boost self-esteem and improve our overall sense of well-being. It’s a sort of built-in reward system. There’s a reason for that. It’s because we are meant to be active.

When he heard laughter, before he could think or feel anything, his heart would already be beating like he’d sprinted twenty yards. As the beating slowly normalized he’d think of how his heart, unlike him,...

There are times when I’m caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, “Please feel good; please feel better; everything’s okay; you’re fine; things aren’t falling apart; take a second; get back...

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf...

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window–maybe rearrange all the furniture.

You always were such a worrier. It was as if you thought your worrying was all that held the world together, and if you stopped for a split second the whole thing would just fly...

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without thinking they were going to attack me and drag me into...

Hard work does not go unnoticed,and someday the rewards will follow

Panic attacks are crazy beasts. They don’t care what you think you’re ready for. They don’t care what you want. They just take control, and then you suffer.

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread,...

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer!

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:’Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is...

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.

It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.

self” has been created as a result of early attachment disruption.

My job is not to worry about what everyone else thinks about me but to discover what I think. If I actually want to know what someone else thinks, my job is then to ask...

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong...

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don’t have faith, according to Jesus. You do...