I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me...

It’s a waste of time worrying about something that worry won’t fix; it’s about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.

No one feels good at four in the morning.If ants feel good at four in the morning—three cheers for the ants.

Our reactions to events is directly promotional to their importance in our life.

Century after century, the belief that an individual’s physical health was independent of his or her emotional health has so dominated medical thought that there has even been open contempt for anyone who would dare...

The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.

The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or...

I’m sure there’s been some anxiety for some of our people since the announcement (about the move). But I think this tour relieves some of that. Not everyone will choose to move, but those who...

Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!Don’tbe caught up in your outer world.Paygreater attention to your inner world

Remember that worrying will not go away by thinking the same thought again and again. Thinking something fresh, loving and uplifting instead of worrying. Replace your worse anxiety with cheerful optimism.

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

We can’t worry away our problems, but we can worry anxiety into our mind and body. Thought energy is powerful. It’s not easy to do, but we serve our well-being best, when we face our...

There’s a lot of anxiety. There’s uncertainty about what’s going to happen, what’s going on. It’s devastating because of what happened to the city, what happened in Mississippi and other places. . . . I...

The evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do.Inside my apartment I’d felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone, to be reassured. Or...

I think there’s some anxiety, but I don’t think it’s unhealthy. More people make it a little more tense at times, but I think it benefits the viewer. Getting on the air depends on how...

Think of your attacks as the ocean during a storm. Waves come and crash. They beat on the sand over and over. Slamming into anything on its way. But then, the storm retreats. The water...

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

For too many women in America are becoming sick with exhaustion and stress as they try to do things that can’t be — shouldn’t be — done. Too many are eaten up by resentment toward...

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d...

Panic—a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

We are faced with choices every moment of our lives. Whatever choice we exercise must make us comfortable and at peace. Choices that are made out of fear and anxiety often do not lead to...

Life is full of issues no matter what social status you enjoy in society, only the nature of issue would be different. You solve one issue, other would come and they would be keep on...

I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short…I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and...

On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unable to sell his work, grew cold and hungry as he went from one unsuccessful interview to...

It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of...

Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else’s snakes can ever be as awful.

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things....

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its...

The market is fraught with indecision, a little bit of anxiety. People recognize summer is coming up and things sort of drift. The market has had a bit of a recovery and now we have...

When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness. . . . The wilderness is the place where God...

Every time you try to do something that anxiety wants to stop you from doing, you’ve struck a blow that will make the anxiety weaker.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we’ve violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret—regret is useless.

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude; play with it and introduce it.

You’re surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don’t notice me.

Sometimes when you press, you have high anxiety, and it affects the way you perform.

Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don’t bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you want to ensure their safety in your life. The bird knows where it...

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I’m like a duck–paddling, paddling, paddling.

Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her...

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

What if I turned out to be a great kisser, and suddenly, girls everywhere wanted to kiss me? Did I really want to risk losing my free time to watch people so I could kiss...

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.

We don’t make a big deal about it. We don’t want to create test anxiety.