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“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.”

“Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.”

Knows Humans Purpose Lost Human Beings Darkness Anxiety Fallen True Purpose

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Living in the present is the way to go. I know firsthand about getting caught up in the hurts of the past and the anxieties of the future and thinking that we are somehow making ourselves feel better by doing so. We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Past Lost Hurt Anxiety Caught Ironic Feel Better Caught Up Here And Now Live In The Present

Author:Renee Marino

“I got a little lost in "Law & Order" and "Luther" and all those shows where it's basically women dying all the time, I had to stop watching that stuff because it fills me with anxiety. And I joined a gym.”

Littles Shows Law Order Lost Stuff Dying Anxiety Gym Luther In-laws

Author:Kevin Drew

“Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really bad about the $5 you've lost. You're cursing yourself. You're going through it again and again. If, on the other hand, you find $5, you go - hey, great, five bucks. And you've forgotten about it really quickly.”

Ifs Feels Matter Hands Lost Stuff Loses Loss Five Anxiety Forgotten Instance Hey Again And Again Bucks Aversion Cursing Lost You

Author:Tim Harford

“The stuff I write about is pretty universal, the things my closest friends and I talk about - our anxiety about being here on this scary planet, during these scary times, as vulnerable as kittens, having lost so many people I couldn't live without.”

People Writing Lost Stuff Planets Anxiety Universal Scary Vulnerable Closest Kitten Closest Friends

Author:Anne Lamott

“Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

“I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.”

Knows Way Heart Home Life Is Lying Lost Forget My Heart Anxiety Eternity Petty Doorways Way Home

Author:Sophie Scholl

“In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.”

“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”

Mind Children House Lost Causes Steps Cry Paper Anxiety Sitting Bottom Wander Blank Scrutiny Lost Child Blank Paper

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure, fear of other people, but mostly fear of myself. It has taken sixty years to discover who I really am. It's never too late to find yourself however lost you may be.”

People Years May Problem Lost Taken Anxiety Late Too Late Finding Yourself Sixty Looking Back Fear Of Failure Never Too Late Lost You

Author:Lynda Bellingham

“When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.”

Thinking Feels I Can Feelings Lying Fall Lost Steps Goes On Despair Anxiety Draws Breaths Throat Mastery Unending Lifeless Tiredness

Author:Reinhold Messner

“Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.”

“Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.”

Hands Past Opportunity Lost Christ Sleep Steps Return Anxiety Yesterday Destructive Constructive Bosoms Irresistible Thoughtfulness Irreparable Lost Opportunity

Book:My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day

Source: My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day