Anxiety Quote by Sallee McLaren

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body…

— Jeannette Walls

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably…

— Mariella Frostrup

“There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for…

— John Steinbeck

What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone,…

— Tilda Swinton

We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form…

— David Benatar

What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen…

— Daniel Kahneman

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

— LZ Granderson

“In fact, being able to tolerate negative feelings can be crucial to a wide variety of life situations: delaying gratification, learning from bad experiences,…

— Julie K. Norem

“Negative experiences create vicious cycles by making you pessimistic, overreactive, and inclined to go negative yourself. Avoiding”

— Rick Hanson

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I…

— Harlan Coben