Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

Mary Lou suddenly realizes that Mack calls the temperature number because he is afraid to talk on the telephone, and by listening to a recording, he doesn’t have to reply. It’s his way of pretending...

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life — I was an average mixer,...

Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead to the development of dissociative identity disorder (DID), other dissociative disorders personality disorders,...

Underneath my imagination there didn’t seem to be anything solid except for the space where I shoved my pain and sadness. Besides that, there were only twisted steel threads of axiety, woven through my body...

Can all you worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not!

I’ve gotta stop thinking I know what other people think, cause most of ‘what other people think’ is something I’m making up. So I should just let them have their experience, I’ll have my experience...

-what’s really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it’s a reflection on us as mothers. Because we believe we should be able to...

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen...

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

He felt like normal. Filled with anxiety, dread, sure. But even that wasn’t unusual…

When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn’t...

Nothing is permanent in this world. Everything is changing, so no matter what problem or issue you are having inyour life at the moment, it would also change sooner or later but of course you...

It could increase people’s anxiety, … Extending the trading hours is going to keep them focusing on the market.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme —...

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When “I” is replaced by “We”, illness becomes wellness.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can’t be harmed by it.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi–like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth–do not want security, egoistic or...

When I feel threatened, vulnerable, or insecure, whether it from simply walking into a room of unknown people, meeting someone for the first time, an unexpected or expected confrontation, or doing something new, I affirm...

There’s as much benefit to wishing the world away as there is in demanding a bud to bloom,” responded Iphigenia as she patted Prue’s hand gently. “It’s better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps...

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

…Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary things like war and rape, they tend to occur when things are ordinary and predictable and relatively stable, against...

Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what they never really had.

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

… rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,…

Our opponents took advantage of our anxiety. They had one attack in the first half, scored and then made good use of the situation.

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can’t get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

We are at the tail end of a decline in infant mortality that began just over a century ago. Babies no longer wander into open hearths or are mauled by marauding pigs. We have vaccines,...

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man’s power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world’s population. But...

When you’re betting for tiles in an archery contest, you shoot with skill. When you’re betting for fancy belt buckles, you worry about your aim. And when you’re betting for real gold, you’re a nervous...

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis — especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he...

I thought anxiety set in today, but we nullified their midfield and made it hard for them to play, and I thought we did a good job here today.

right” because I can predict crazy because I have been trained in the unpredictable nature of consistent craziness because I am crazy.

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts–and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at...

I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I...

Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and...

Anxiety is removed by faith in the Lord; the faith that tells you that whatever happens is for the best and that the Lord’s will be done.

The other day in prayer I said to God, “Look – I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?”.

God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many...

When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn’t ruin your whole day.

Out of the abundance of the imagination rises the beast called worry and it is soon joined by its partners, anxiety and stress. If you would care to do away with all three at once,...

Once people noticed the weather was getting worse, some of them experienced panic and anxiety that caused stress-related conditions such as chest pains, and this led many of them to the emergency room.

People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the outcome of a situation.

The anxious heart, in its flailings, loses its hold on whatever grace God has bestowed upon it, and is sapped of the strength to “resist the temptations of the Evil One, who is all the...