- He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. George R. R. Martin (A Clash of Kings, 1999)
- “Enlightenment is the Goal – Love is the Game – Taking steps are the rules! – Allan Rufus” ― Allan Rufus
- “What we do is dictated by what we are doing.” ― Jill Spiewak Eng, Body Over Mind: A Mindful Reality Check, attaining psychological freedom by confronting thought with reality
- It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest, Amazon Book)
- Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all. Thomas Carlyle
- “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
- “The most difficult battle is peace.” ― Lorin Morgan-Richards
- True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied, for he that is wants nothing. Seneca
- “The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it.” ― Pawan Mishra
- Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. Thich Nhat Hanh
- “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
- “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
- “A wise man once said, ‘Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you’ll lose it. But let it come & go & you’ll always be connected to it.’” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- “The best antidote to the furtive poison of anger, fear, anxiety, or any of our destructive, unwieldy passions, is just gratitude. And not the grandiose, boisterous or especially obvious kind. It is not necessarily the verbose or expressive kind. It’s often the full immersion, a kind of deep submersion even, into a pool of awareness. This penitent affect distills within us surreal realizations; it is a focus, tinged with layers of deep remorse and the profound beauty of newfound appreciation that washes over us about the simplest things we have slipped into, or suddenly become aware of our own complacency over. This cooling antidote instantly soothes any veins swollen with the heat of pride, or stopped up with pearls of finely polished self-pity. This all comes about with a balm of humility that is simultaneously soothing and jolting to all of our senses at the same time. It is a cocktail both sedative and stimulant in the same, finite instant. It often occurs as we are halted dead in our tracks by a thing so extraordinary and breathtakingly natural, even luscious in its simplicity and unusually ordinary existence; often something we have been blatantly negligent of noticing as we routinely trudge past it in our self-absorbed haze. These are akin to the emotions one might feel as they finally notice the well-established antique rose garden, in full bloom; the same one they have walked by for years on their way to somewhere – but never noticed before. This is the feeling we get when our aging parent suddenly, in one moment, is 87 in our mind’s eye – and not the steady 57, or eternal 37 we have determinedly seen our so loved one to be, out of purely wishful thinking born of the denial that only the truest love and devotion can begin to nurture – for the better of many decades.” ― Connie Kerbs, Paths of Fear: An Anthology of Overcoming Through Courage, Inspiration, and the Miracle of Love
- “It is possible to gain control over our most anxious thoughts and self-destructive behavior through mindfulness practice and meditative experiences.” ― J.R. Incer
- “I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way. Seneca (Moral Letters to Lucilius, Amazon Book)
- “After a time, though, Inman found that he had left the book and was simply forming the topography of home in his head. Cold Mountain, all its ridges and coves and watercourses. Pigeon River, Little East Fork, Sorrell Cove, Deep Gap, Fire Scald Ridge. He knew their names and said them to himself like the words of spells and incantations to ward off the things one fears most.” ― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
- Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far. Jodi Picoult (Sing You Home: A Novel)
- Some of us are luckier than others. Some are tough and some are weak. Some are rich and some poor. But no one’s superman – in that way, we’re all weak. If we own things, we’re terrified we’ll lose them; if we’ve got nothing we worry it’ll be that way forever. We’re all the same. Haruki Murakami
- “There’s a quote from ‘The Breakfast Club’ that goes “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.” I have it on a poster but I took a Sharpie to it and scratched out the word “hiding” because it reminds me that there’s a certain pride and freedom that comes from wearing your unique bizarreness like a badge of honor.” ― Jenny Lawson – Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
- “Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!Don’tbe caught up in your outer world.Paygreater attention to your inner world” ― Allan Rufus
- The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. Lin Yutang
- We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. Friedrich Nietzsche (Untimely Meditations, Amazon Book)
- “It’s like I have a sensor in my head, but she works on a seven-second delay… well-meaning, but perpetually about seven seconds too late to actually do anything to stop the horrific avalanche of shit-you-shouldn’t- say-out-loud-but-I-just-did.” ― Jenny Lawson
- “Recovery through sleep isn’t going to happen if the majority of the components of your being aren’t getting enough stimulation or resistance to work against. Your brain may be tired after work, but if your body and emotions haven’t been challenged through the day, they’re going to keep irritating you even if you’re asleep. They don’t need rest; they need work for real recovery to take place.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer
- “The most difficult battle is peace.” ― Lorin Morgan-Richards
- You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
- “Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl