Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“It’s quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your… — Juli Zeh Copy Share Image
I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by the ghost… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“After six hours in the car, he felt no panic, only a kind of numb wonder. On some level he had come… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I have a lot of anxiety and mental health struggles and things, as we all do. Sometimes, I would be so anxious… — Renee Rapp Copy Share Image
“Anxiety does not exist to control you. You exist to control it. It is, as I said, a simple fact of life… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“ Progressive Muscle Relaxation Even when you feel at ease, you may still experience tightness in your body. People with chronic anxiety… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“It is not so much adverse events that make you anxious as it is your thoughts about those events. Your mind engages… — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red –… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
“This is where I go, when I go: It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time.… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
There are a host of surprises among longer-term meditators, like a boost in the immune system from a day of practice, which… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert,… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“I once asked you what anxiety felt like, and you told me that most days left you riddled with bullet holes. Every… — d.a.s Copy Share Image
The rewards of integrity are immeasurable. One is the indescribable inner peace and serenity that come from knowing we are doing what… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himself to remember the details… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
My first album deals with my anxiety. It wasn't like, to heal my anxiety and by writing an album I'm now healed.… — Visionist Copy Share Image
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Chronic anxiety is a form of illness. It's not something you bring on yourself by how you feel on any given day.… — Sara Barnard Copy Share Image
Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence... where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image