The interesting thing about depression and anxiety is that, it's not always wholly negative things that bring them on. Often times, those… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one.… — Monica Drake Copy Share Image
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud. — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place',… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll… — Aimee Liu Copy Share Image
I don't really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It's all inside me. I am good at… — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
“The old summer's-end melancholy nips at my heels. There's no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over… So one can be grown up at seven. Then,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Think of your attacks as the ocean during a storm. Waves come and crash. They beat on the sand over and over.… — Lindsay Paige Copy Share Image
You're not going to die. Here's the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you'll still be okay. If you lose the gig,… — Danielle LaPorte 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
“I'm cracking up in this fucking Fishbinder Problem Box. A terrible seizure is coming on, I can feel its sinister pulsation creeping… — William Kotzwinkle Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“...I experienced a sudden ache -- part desolation, part panic -- to observe the speed with which this mate, this familiar, was… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“[T]he anxiety-laden problem of what will happen to me when I die is, after all, like asking what happens to my fist… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get… — Subodh Gupta Copy Share Image
So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as… — Kathryn Joosten Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
True it is that each of us has only one life - but how many of us 'die a thousand deaths' in… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
Needless worry gives small things a big shadow. In the end, you can either focus on whats tearing you apart, or whats… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alarm clocks unset, their taunts silent. Crystals flashing dire red, as if to warn of seconds that dwell, of years that fleet.” — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
I just think you need to believe in yourself - be offensive, but still have some nervousness in your body before any… — Ada Hegerberg Copy Share Image
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“I was overwhelmed by an undefinable sensation, too serene to be called anxiety, but unpleasant enough not to go unnoticed.” — Guadalupe Nettel Copy Share Image
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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