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“I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?”
“It’s when I’m around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now”
“️Don't say "I'm a worrier and this is just who I am"!, or "I've always been a worrier, I can't help it"; instead decide from this day forward to become someone who DOESN'T worry.”
“We’re programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It’s kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it m...”
“She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.”
“She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had rema...”
“The evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do.Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone, to be reassured. Or perhaps I...”
“Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.”
“The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.”
“I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening to...”
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”
“in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.”
“Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives. As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesmen to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and l...”
“Quite collected at cocktail parties,meanwhile in my headI'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”
“I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never k...”
“There was no outlet, my fear was so deep and tangible I couldn't scream. It felt like an actual substance that enveloped my body, my brain, my very being, I receded further and further within mysel...”
“The worst part about anxiety attacks, is that you’re aware it’s irrational and sometimes unexplainable, but knowing that gives no aid what so ever. In most cases, it deepens the anxiety as you real...”
“The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people’s respect for me would vanish if what I did was second rate. And while I accept that this “perfectionism” is likel...”
“I don't know what I was looking for . . . I felt empty. I guess. Not hearing from you made it all seem surreal, like you were never there, a dream, a figment of my imagination.I went to your site t...”
