The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:’Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is...

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.

It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.

self” has been created as a result of early attachment disruption.

My job is not to worry about what everyone else thinks about me but to discover what I think. If I actually want to know what someone else thinks, my job is then to ask...

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong...

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don’t have faith, according to Jesus. You do...

I can’t believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.

The vision I see in the mirror is me, who I am, supposedly, but that vision does not express the way my mind works or the way I feel inside. A realization creeps over me,...

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.

The changes we make in life often happen when we have a degree of certainty. However, the pain of our past failures and the fears of our peers often fuel our uncertainty. This inability to...

Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take...

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another–which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil...

Life’s stress is less on getting less by craving more, but more by feeling less on getting more.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

Mlinzi mmoja wa ndani alishtuka aliposikia kishindo cha kitu kudondoka. Aligeuka upesiupesi lakini akaridhika alipokuta ni mwenzake ila akashindwa kuelewa kwa nini mwenzake huyo aanguke. Hata hivyo aliachana na Murphy na kuendelea na lindo lake...

Almost everything that I’ve ever worried about has never happened ..

Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have...

There is no such thing as a good decision and a bad decision. There are only decisions. Make them, fuck up, enjoy, repeat.

for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses.”Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight – isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you’re less fearful and...

…there is also an underlying, less specific fear – what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety – that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We...

All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life if we do not perform totemic acts to keep them on the path...

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as...

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

Years ago, I dated a lovely young woman who was a few thousand dollars in debt. She was completely stressed out about this. Every month, more interest would be added to her debts.To deal with...

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.-Subodh Gupta author “Stress Management a holistic approach -5 steps plan”.

Do not let your peace depend on the words of men. Their thinking well or badly of you does not make you different from what you are. Where are true peace and glory? Are they...

Why can’t I just have a good time? Why can’t I get on with it?

A coward talks to everyone but YOU.

polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

He thought plain thoughts and so retained his consciousness.

When I don’t have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people–including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and...

I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement...

Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope that your dominion is not determined by people’s negative opinions!

One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and whatpeople can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they...

It’s true, I did say I wanted girlfriends,” I capitulated hesitantly, “but couldn’t we start with something smaller and less terrifying? Like maybe spend a weekend at a crack house? I heard those people are...

God knows your need. Cast your burdens upon Him.

When I’m naked, I can see my heart beating.

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who...

Listen, I wanted to say, I don’t need your judgment, okay? I have enough to deal with without you contributing, so can we just get on with this so I can get out of here?But...

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

Dying is more terrifying than actual death.