Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but not together.

— Craig Thompson

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?

— Elizabeth Bowen

You can't bluff an old theologian. Linus.

— Charlie brown Christmas

Depression is state of deep anxiety. It is better to pray about everything than worry about nothing.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Feeling compassion toward a dangerous person will not lead you to submit to them or put yourself at risk or condone their actions. What it does simply, is relieve your anxiety – which immediately makes you stronger and more resilient.

— Laurie Perez

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

— Elbert Hubbard

In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67 or ’68 when I broke down first, acutely, and had violent turns of hysteria. As I lay prostrate after the storm with my mind luminous and active and susceptible of the clearest, strongest impressions, I saw so distinctly that it was a fight simply between my body and my will, a battle in which the former was to be triumphant to the end....So, with the rest, you abandon the pit of your stomach, the palms of your hands, the soles of your feet, and refuse to keep them sane when you find in turn one moral impression after another producing despair in the one, terror in the others, anxiety in the third and so on until life becomes one long flight from remote suggestion and complicated eluding of the multifold traps set for your undoing.

— Alice James

We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety.

— Floriano Martins

Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

— Gretchen Rubin