While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.
T.F. HodgeTags: fear power soul faith believe spirituality wings quotes anxiety elevation
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
Augustine of HippoTags: anxiety peace-of-mind
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
Augustine of HippoTags: education curiosity discipline anxiety
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
Augustine of HippoTags: disillusionment idolatry anxiety
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
Augustine of HippoTags: distraction anxiety discipleship
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Shannon L. AlderTags: fear goals decisions choices anxiety overcoming obstacles secret-of-life life-purpose derailed living-on-purpose road-blocks
It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind of their own and going all by themselves at a hundred miles a second, and I was just sitting back, feeling the growing paranoia inside of me.
Sasha MizareeTags: paranoia thoughts anxiety contemplation control-issues
Good God, but life could be less than easy, not that he was unaware that it could certainly be a lot worse, but to go about in such a state, pulse high, face red, worried sick that someone would notice how nervous one was, was certainly less than ideal, and he felt sure that his body was secreting all kinds of harmful chemicals and that the more he worried about the harmful chemicals the faster they were pouring out of wherever it was they came from.
George SaundersTags: humor life anxiety worrying worries nervousness
his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson's Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
Charles DickensIt was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.
Kim Stanley RobinsonTags: sadness sleep anxiety restlessness insomnia
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