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.

The speaker indicts our unbelieving responses to Jesus’ COMMAND not to worry. We take it less seriously than His commands about overt actions and justify ourselves that we would not worry if He kept us...

Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the innumerable daily activities (and these are two phases of the same process) —...

Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to me. I don’t know what to say, to not look like a major dork or something. I am...

While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.

The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.

There is a sense of anxiety to hurry up and get started and get back on track.

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.

How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind motionless, were once innocuous mere threads.” -Mehul.M

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

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 —...