Anxiety
Quotes - A lady should never feel anxious about her behaviour
“I’ve
always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to
love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me
irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“The
most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate
candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to
retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.”
―
Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
“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
“Silence
is a lie that screams at the light.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“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
“Something,
somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and
experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying
attention to the signs.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“I’ve
grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space
inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“I
think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the
bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous,
beautiful, and strong.”
―
Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
“Surely
no one else lived like this - burdened by the tiniest details they assumed had
enormous consequences. Surely no one else was so anchored by anxiety. Other
people could stumble and shake their heads and move on. How she envied their
lightness.”
―
R.F. Kuang, Katabasis
“Meditation
did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious
response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let
me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say
that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist
in relationship to each other, not independently.”
―
Mark Epstein, Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life - Insights from
Buddhism and Psychotherapy
“If
your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions,
anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain
may be making the connection between your body pain and the cause. “Beliefs are
physical. A thought held long enough and repeated enough becomes a belief. The
belief then becomes biology.”
―
Marilyn Van M. Derbur, Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned From Ultimate
Betrayals And Unconditional Love
“A
lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the
bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar.”
―
Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight
“Though
it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it
with continuous anxiety and gloom.”
―
Alain de Botton
“You
were talking about the wind," the Fillyjonk said suddenly. "A wind
that carries off your washing. But I'm speaking about cyclones. Typhoons,
Gaffsie dear. Tornadoes, whirlwinds, sandstorms... Flood waves that carry
houses away... But most of all I'm talking about myself and my fears, even if I
know that's not done. I know everything will turn out badly. I think about that
all the time. Even while I'm washing my carpet. Do you understand that? Do you
feel the same way?”
―
Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley
“for
to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken
them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."
Separation
anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959)”
―
John Bowlby
“Anyone
who dies by their own hand always has my sympathy. It's easy to sit in
judgement on another's struggle from the outside without ever living in their
suffocating darkness. If there is an explanation left behind, it usually
confirms how relentlessly harsh and unfair they were on themselves. Mourn their
release with mercy and gratitude for doing what they were capable of in their
short lives.”
―
Stewart Stafford
“The
novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own
preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while
the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that
scorned every appearance of haste”
―
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
“I
was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive
sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down... I ghosted
between islands of anxiety... a fatigue that dulled my zest, decanted it.
Sorrow felt like a marble coat I couldn’t shed.”
―
Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir
