“Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s not worth it.”
“Self-awareness is daily natural self-help.”
“Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest.”
“I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.”
“So much of anxiety was anxiety about having anxiety.”
“Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.”
“To accept a little death is worse than death itself.”
“I hope you see what you ve done to me.”
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
“It is our work to cast care, and it is God s work to take care.”
“Anxiety is love s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we re doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow s load with today s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
“To hear the phrase our only hope always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn t work, there is nothing left.”
“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.”