“Panic attacks are crazy beasts. They don’t care what you think you’re ready for. They don’t care what you want. They just… — Catherine Gayle Copy Share Image
Anxiety is so pervasive in my work, it's like it's not even a thing because it's always there. Like air. I have… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I'm not a super nervous guy in general. I don't live a ton of my life in my head. — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The beautiful thing about meditation is that it allows you to access that cool guy or girl inside of you that's waiting… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“All of us react to our anxiety by “partializing” our world, by restricting our consciousness within narrow bounds, to areas that we… — David R. Loy Copy Share Image
“Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see… — Bono Copy Share Image
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero,… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
"Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image