- “I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
- The devil cries when you don’t worry. @AmuseChimp
- “You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “You can forget about yourself and still know you will always do everything you are supposed to do.” ― Jill Spiewak Eng, The Myth of Doing: managing guilt, shame, anxiety, regret and self-judgment
- “How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, “Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?” To which the man responded, “That’s your worry.” ― Max Lucado
- “The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis — especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he finds his compassion because he remembers he is the exception in being able to see beyond the immediate — and foreboding — horizon.” ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
- “Mindfulness makes a year feel like a decade, whereas mindlessness does the opposite.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- We human beings are what we have been for millions of years – colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of joy and affection. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop
- “Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.” ― Ralph Keyes, The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear
- “Thinking too deeplyWill only drown me.” ― Greta Farrell, flavor profile
- “I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.” ― Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
- “Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.” ― Pawan Mishra
- “Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.” ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
- We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us. Pema Chödrön
- “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
- “Dropping in and out of your own life (for psychotic breaks, or treatment in a hospital) isn’t like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (and the odds are not in your favor), you’re lonely there. The people you boarded with originally are far, far ahead of you, and now you’re stuck playing catch-up.” ― Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
- “Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.” ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
- “Let’s imagine a running washing machine. Let’s imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain.” ― Pawan Mishra
- “God knows your every need.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- Stop worrying about your f*cking future. Start creating it instead. Use your present wisely. And f*ck the past. It’s over. Bury it. Fateh Singh
- Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths. Charles Spurgeon
- The ultimate purpose of inquiry is that it allows us to pause. In the space of a pause, truth can shine through. Tara Brach (Radical Acceptance)
- “Deep inside each carried fear and stress and worry about illness and time, which came each day like a conscientious gardener to trim off a bit of their lives.” ― Christos Ikonomou, Κάτι θα γίνει, θα δεις
- “We’re just strangers passing each other, your anxieties briefly brushing against mine as the fibers of our coats touch momentarily on a crowded sidewalk somewhere. We never really know what to do to each other, with each other, for each other.” ― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
- “Quotes and notes to self- Divine and Unique PowerFind out what my Individual Divineand Unique PowerISand offer it outwardsin harmonywith all life!” ― Allan Rufus, The Master’s Sacred Knowledge
- I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. Mark Twain
- A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. Joyce Meyer