Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high...

We thought it was wrongheaded and the amount of anxiety caused by this review was significant, … We stopped the VA from going backward, but we still need to move forward.

re-living” the past in our minds, thus dishonouring the present moment. The young monk wasted hours distressing himself with judgment, speculation, anxiety, resentment and ultimately self-perpetuated unhappiness as a direct result of not being mindful.

Like an attack this melancholy comes from time to time. I don’t know at what intervals, and slowly covers my sky with clouds. It begins with an unrest in the heart, with a premonition of...

I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven’t been able to do it alone, that’s defeat right? But do a couple pills change why I’m here? Will my spirit be altered? Do my passions...

A lot of anxiety is created by people when they think about filing their tax return. It’s like going to the dentist. Just do it and get it over with.

Freedom is anxiety’s petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, “Even if you don’t want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen correctly.”...

Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don’t give it away.

I still get plenty anxious. The weird thing, and the unpleasant surprise for me, of proceeding well into the middle, perhaps even post-prime of my career is that writing books has not got any easier....

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

That early goal (in the second period) really took us another notch down in terms of anxiety that we had. We started to skate more freely and do the things were capable of. That was...

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

But I’m not going to dwell on it or feel sorry for myself and build up anxiety. You take it for what it is.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

I don’t like this ideaIt is too much focuson something I am trying to forgetI am afraidthat this attention to detailwill only fuel my anxiety

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.

Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won’t spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a...

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than...

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

We periodically return to the throne of God for a transfusion of reality. It helps us recall that the redemption of mankind doesn’t depend on us. Sometimes we lose sight of that. A visit back...

The threat of a strike is certainly going to raise a lot of anxiety for Ottawa residents.

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down… I ghosted between islands of anxiety… a fatigue that dulled my...

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper’s aim.

My duty is to pray. I know God hears my prayers.

I haven’t told you that today, Meg, because I don’t know.

This is where I go, when I go:It’s a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.I’m...

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

The Fall will always be yours and mine…

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another’s circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

chocolate frogs” from Harry Potter.

When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you...

The apprehension of this blessed truth (God’s faithfulness) will check our murmurings. The Lord knows what is best for each of us, and one effect or resting on this truth will be the silencing of...

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!

I was beginning to realize that what I wanted was the noise of people living near me, but not near enough to cause any inaudible noises to show up because I knew that those sorts...

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don’t see the full picture. That’s the point. That’s what faith is. You can’t see...

Sloth may disguise itself as “conscientious work” and meet with various forms of public approval or success. But work that is not motivated by love for the life of the community, beyond the temporal and...

When we start being too impressed by the results of our work, we slowly come to the erroneous conviction that life is one large scoreboard where someone is listing the points to measure our worth....

You said just now, “Don’t be so ashamed of yourself, because that’s the root of your trouble”––with those words, you seem to have reached right into my innermost soul. What I mean is, when I...

It’s been my experience that people always assume that generalized anxiety disorder is preferable to social anxiety disorder, because it sounds more vague and unthreatening, but those people are totally wrong. For me, having generalized...