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“As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.”
“That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn't quite speak.”
“How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result”
“I think there’s something wrong with my lungs. Maybe I have an allergy or hay fever. I think it might even be a fracture they forgot to fix. I worry about it a lot. I can picture the broken rib imp...”
“You’re not fine. You’re not. And that’s OK. The first thing I want you to do is to finally tell yourself that it’s OK not to be OK. To accept that you’re feeling badly and that something isn’t righ...”
“That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.”
“People-pleasers feel they must constantly be performing acts of service to others to gain acceptance. That requires a lot of work, effort, and energy. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.”
“What starts out as an intrusive thought can turn into an overwhelming concept if we "feed" it with more negative thinking. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.”
“Everything takes place at a right time. It’s your anxiety to achieve everything before time or grab things more than you required, add misery to your life.”
“An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.”
“She finished getting ready with plenty of time to eat breakfast but didn't feel up to braving the dining hall; she still didn't know where it was or how it worked....In new situations, all the tric...”
“The worst thing to be afraid of is fear. Give yourself grace. – Jessica Willis”
“I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.”
“...as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.”
“What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”
“For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them.”
“You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.”
“As we’ve already mentioned, the main premise of the worrier is that things are uniformly dangerous. No risks can be tolerated. It is here, in the mind of the worrier, that the four rules of anxiety...”
“A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.”
“Which sort of shows why my body is an idiot, because forced narcolepsy is pretty much the worst defense ever.”
