In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which...

Never miss a party…good for the nerves–like celery.

Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly,...

They were trying to orchestrate a revolution, which almost by definition generated a sense of collective trauma that defied any semblance of coherence and control. If we wish to rediscover the psychological context of the...

I hope you see what you’ve done to me.

The data reinforced the view that the Fed may not have to tighten much more and relieves anxiety about inflation.

I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like...

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

Se tudo o resto não me basta por que hei-de impedir o efeito paliativo das benzodiazepinas e a volúpia desta evocação alucinatória?If everything else is not enough for me why should I stop the palliative...

This is the law of nature that every person who is born has to go through certain kind of painful experiences. Thepainful issues keep coming throughout life.As you progress on the spiritual path their impact...

Why aren’t I fine?

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

You don’t have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others...

Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.

protect” you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary.

Before New York, the cracks were already there, but now they began to split open and gape, and the difference between how a thing or a place or a person appears and the reality becomes...

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by the ghost of your mother from the spectral Hindenburg forever circling the Earth come smashing...

Listen here: Fuck you. Fuck you! I am sick and fucking tired of this bullshit. I refuse to let you win. I am not going to take it anymore. You are ruining my fucking life...

It was a myth you couldn’t function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point...

Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually...

She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer.” Mary Lou Quinlan, author

Those who pretend as if they don’t love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.

The fear and anxiety of baring my soul is transcended by the thrill and honor and wonderfulness of being able to touch and affect so many people… having people look into my mind, my imagination…...

Over time, parents have barnacled the most routine activities in infancy with their own preoccupations. It’s sometimes hard to see the baby for all the barnacles.

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all...

Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.

La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n’est rien qu’un peu de passé en retard.

Will this last forever?

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn’t match your life, you have pain.

You are not alone…please know that hope can fly in on the most unexpected of wings.

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn’t needed the transportation.

Some part of me can’t wait to see what life’s going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as...

We live in a congested region, so it doesn’t take much precipitation for that anxiety level to increase. People already drive too fast. You throw a little bit of snow in the there and you...

If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.

Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the...

Carry the confidence.

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what...

Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family...

It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

You haunt my days and dreams.