He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in...

A writer’s duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain,...

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

Your path might be a lonely one… but, you are NOT alone!

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested – ask any doctor – that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

If you are resolute to go, I will not stop you. But I hope I’m making the right decision.

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

Time’ is the most threatening four letter word.

It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly...

There’s memory clutter, which reminds you of an important person, achievement, or event from your past. I think memory clutter often gathers in the homes of people with some degree of depression. And then there’s...

Find your “self-culture” is hero’s work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and...

The promise of hope provides more comfort than the limitations of doubt.

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

If your confidence is based purely on the way you look, you’re setting yourself up for a) years of fretting about how to appear perfect, and b) anxiety / despair as the wrinkles inevitably set...

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn’t want to force anybody to want to.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.

Quotes and notes to self- Divine and Unique PowerFind out what my Individual Divineand Unique PowerISand offer it outwardsin harmonywith all life!

his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson’s Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come...

When we are true to ourselves, all that is toxic and burdensome simply falls away

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.

Do you remember what I forgot?

He Himself makes the mortals anxious, and He Himself takes the anxiety away.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

Summer turns and marches away, fed up with being handled like a child. Like she’s a glass doll that might break at any minute. She hasn’t been a child since the day she was whipped...

The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You can take control. You can do something to keep bad things from happening...

I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever...

I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is...

Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.

I’m concerned about the anxiety and stress of the families here in Newton and in the Amana area,

People complain about cold weather during winter, about hot weather during summer and about rain in rainyseason. People who are single are depressed that they are single, those who are married think that singlesare having...

Stop stressin’ and be a blessin’.

She went downstairs slowly and sat in front of the fire, rocking herself to and fro as she imagined all of the harm he might have suffered: she could see him enticed into a car...

Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so; or sorrow’s eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides one thing entire to many objects: like perspectives which, rightly gaz’d...

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

Sometimes, too often, I don’t want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Transition and change – guaranteed to cause anxiety. That anxiety shows itself in physical and behavioral ways, but also with thoughts (sometimes really crazy ones). This is the (primitive/automatic) brain’s way of keeping us safe...

However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which “rules despotic over pale shadows of past and future”. That was Sylvia’s genius and her Panic Bird-...

Il n’arrivait às à trouver exactement son aplomb. Comme lorsqu’on déplace un meuble très lourd et qu’on n’arrive plus ensuite à faire coïncider sa base avec ses marques laissées au sol. Ou comme lorsqu’on n’arrive...

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety – sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn’t what’s important – facing it is.

It’s hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried

Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and...

I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…