Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

But the strange thing, the thing that you can never explain to anyone, except another nut, or, if you’re lucky, a doctor who has an unusual amount of sense-stranger than the hallucinations, or the voices,...

the prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me.

Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.

After everything that’s happened, her fear of requesting a prescription or of asking Trevor about his mother baffles her. Shouldn’t life-altering events make you less afraid of the little stuff? But it’s the little stuff...

In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in...

Note to Self – Thoughts design my energy!MythoughtsWILLdesign the energythat movesme!

The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart...

We’re much more upbeat now than a few weeks ago when there was a sort of creeping anxiety.

ANXIETY i will transform you into something useful and productive. I will not bow down to you. ~THE END

The surest antidote for anxiety is to always do your best and have complete trust in God.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

Free your hearts of anxiety, pain and anger, to have peace within your heart and soul.

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children. This sounds noble on the surface but in fact it’s doing no one–...

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

If you focus your mind on problem, the problem would become bigger and bigger and you get into the circle of worrying and then your mind gives you the false impression that the problem is...

Mix a little time with some space, and suddenly good things fall right into place. No worries, don’t doubt it – just build!

Badger had been waiting with ever increasing certainty for that brown, government stamped envelope, to hit the floor with the impact of several atomic bombs; the shockwaves hitting him before the sound could penetrate his...

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation...

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

It’s hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don’t exist.

The soul is “torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Once he traveled to a village to purchase a large rice harvest, but when he arrived the rice had already been sold to another tradesman. Nevertheless, Siddhartha remained in this village for several days; he...

The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]

We follow the ethics of our British friends with some anxiety,

If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn’t a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind. If you have ever been friends with a drama queen you know how...

Perhaps the relevant truth- and it’s one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I’m sure to much of the world, long before it became apparent to me-is that we all find ourselves in...

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

Disquite SonnetI wish that I could find the words to tellYou were it hurts; nothing breaking my skinSlices whispering in my brain like hellLeaking suggestions of a morose grinCannot collect my thoughts long enough toShare...

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

Keep making noise, I prayed, laughing. Bang drums. Clamor and ring bells for I cannot stand to hear the tired beating of this almost heart.

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it – performers as...

The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.

When people are needing to get medicine, there’s a lot of concerns and anxiety. The police are there to keep the anxieties down and provide that control and help things run smoothly.

But here we see the peace of God is not the absence of negative thoughts, it is the presence of God himself.

The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can manifest just six months from now as unconditional love and...

People with anxiety and trust issues find themselves drawn to people of consistency because they feel safe with someone who is predictable. However, that doesn’t cure their problem. The anxious person still remains the same...

Sometimes it’s better to look at things than own them… owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67 or ’68 when I broke down first, acutely, and had violent turns of...

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.