Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens on its own, you have to make things happen. If you really want to come out of your stressful situation… — Subodh Gupta Copy Share Image
“If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must… — Dr. Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Too many times I hesitate to say what's in my heart, because I have so much to say and I don't know… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“When you’re meeting a whole lot of new people and having to do things you’re in—I’m in a constant low-level state of… — david foster wallace Copy Share Image
“Closeness eases the anxiety and depression of believing that no one really cares about you. It softens the frustration and anger that… — Kira Asatryan Copy Share Image
“I wish I could tell every single woman with depression or anxiety or who has gotten herself into a situation that she… — Constance Hall Copy Share Image
“With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen, how's your plane?… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But self-mastery triumphs in this Modern Life of ours. So if we haven’t found happiness or calm or balance amidst it all… — Sarah Wilson Copy Share Image
When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A big thing with the heart issue is you can't be up in here being stressed and having a lot of anxiety,… — Channing Frye Copy Share Image
“When anxiety becomes problematic, most people try vainly to think their way out of trouble. But worry has its roots in the… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transitions. Our "Age of Anxiety"… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“You will remember that every psychological or inner state finds some outer representation via the moving centre—that is, it is represented in… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
“Fear distorts our sense of what reality really is. It takes over our thoughts and drains us of our energies. The important… — Dennis Simsek Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts… — K'naan Copy Share Image
A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Each petal in the universe whispers in our ears that an unknown power is at work. If we align ourselves with this… — Sanchita Pandey Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“ Self-Consciousness In addition to the divisions of specific and generalized social anxiety, experts also identify two types of self-consciousness: public self-consciousness… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image