Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I get caught in a hell-world of some sort. In the initial phase, I’m aware of and merging with a kind of… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“Running keeps me at a physical peak and sharpens my senses. It makes me touch and see and hear as if for… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
“If you focus your mind on problem, the problem would become bigger and bigger and you get into the circle of worrying… — Subodh Gupta Copy Share Image
Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“When my grandpa died, I had this same fear. I love Grandpa so much. He was Mom's dad, and he was my… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Like this book, the dictionary shows you that the word "nervous" means "worried about something" -- you might feel nervous, for instance,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved… — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life.… — Yanni Copy Share Image
If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety,… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“We intend to come back to ourselves as soon as everything calms down. We are running ourselves to death to create time… — Benjamin Riggs Copy Share Image
“... beginnings are always reserved for anxiety, middles are for experience, problems and troubleshooting, and only once the beginning and middle have… — Tania Aebi Copy Share Image
“Getting into fights with people makes my heart race. Not getting into fights with people makes my heart race. Even sleeping makes… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
There's always something in new technology that promotes anxiety on the one hand, but also grieving on the other. With the internet,… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence'… — Brian Johnson Copy Share Image
During a heavy storm at sea a nervous woman passenger on a large liner went to the captain, seeking reassurance. "Captain," she… — James Keller Copy Share Image
“Geoff stared into Eric's vacant eyes and thought seriously about going into a mad panic: the sort of panic where you pull… — Peter Ward Copy Share Image
Dont worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by… — Baz Lurhman Copy Share Image
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I like to look up the formal definitions of words that I'm already familiar with and sometimes you find out a word… — Ali Koehler Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of problems stem from a desire to avoid discomfort. For example, people who fear failure often avoid new challenges in… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety,… — Matt Bellassai Copy Share Image
You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Day-to-day concerns really trumped big dreams for quite a while in my life. I was so freaked out about money. And until,… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which "rules despotic over pale… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
