“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.” YearsChildrenTwoFeelingsKidsSchoolJoyPurposeThreeEasyLossFiveFourAnxietyStressOur ChildrenCombinationWelfareExcitementTwo YearsFour YearsIrrationalNestsDepartureEasy ThingsTwo Year OldsPre School Author:Vera Farmiga
“I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.” MindSaidEnoughEasyToo MuchAnxiety Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.” HardYoungEasyLosesDoubtHard WorkAnxietyJudgmentLosing Yourself Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."” TryingSelfTodayEasyTomorrowAnxietyYesterdayFortunateRelaxAnxiousStolenTake It EasyYounger Self Author:Bill Nighy
“If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.” IfsMenWorldWayLongHelpingNextEasyKnowledgePathThis WorldBrotherAnxietyFaultsIslamBelieverGods WillPursueParadiseRemoveResurrectionSmoothGod HelpDestitute Author:Elijah Muhammad
“It'd be nice to feel that claustrophobic feeling or the anxiety that the film Melancholia produces, but for me I look at it and think about what I was doing that day, where we shot it... It's kind of like a weird memory. It's more a photo album of memories than being able to feel connected to myself. It's not easy to do.” ThinkingFeelsLooksKindFeelingsAbleFilmEasyMemoriesNiceProduceAnxietyShotsAlbumsConnectedBeing Nice Author:Kirsten Dunst
“Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.” BeliefEasyEmotionAnxietyCreatingRedInvitesFlagsInquiryDiscouragementExaggeratedIdentifyingReally TrueRed Flags Author:Virginia H. Pearce
“1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day's rest. 5. Get a smart seasickness if you can. 6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy. This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.” IfsThinkingMindUseCareLastsTurnsEasyJourneyExerciseCostAnxietySmartCastsDietsNow And ThenPrincipalFatigueFrugalityCast Away Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782 Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782
“Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.” FeelsHardEasyMiddleAnxietyMiseryTerrorAnxiety Attacks Author:Scott Stossel