Best anxiety & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.”

Source: Doin' the Box Step

“I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting.”

People Thinking Writing Stills Feelings Mother Difficult Interesting Talking Anxiety Motherhood Uneasy Ambivalent

Author:Laurie Foos

“I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.”

“One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.”

Mother Anxiety Injury Head Injuries

Author:Rachel Zucker

“I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.”

Knows Way School Mother Guy Father Black Walks Streets Grew Hero Anxiety Raised Neighborhood Segregation My Hero Great Father All Black Black Guys Etcetera

Author:Shelby Steele

“We do share with my mother what I would refer to as an anxiety gene. And I think it is genetic, that I worry about everything. Not every day, I don't want to say it like that, but I do worry a lot about - what was the line I heard the other day, when I was saying to a girlfriend of mine that I worry? She says, "Yes, I spent my whole life worrying - and some of the things actually came true."”

Thinking Want Whole Mother Lines Worry Heard Share Mines Anxiety Whole Life Girlfriend Genes

Author:Sherry Lansing

“You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my mother was in Auschwitz with her; my grandmother and grandfather died there. So yes. All of those gestures they work for you, or for them, to fill their time or not feel their anxiety. But the child feels everything. It doesn't make the child secure. You put the child in a jail.”

Mean Children Mother Anxiety Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother Aunt Auschwitz Father Died

Author:Chantal Akerman

“My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.”

Way Remember Mother Attention Drug Anxiety Suicide Reactions Release

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.”

Way Mother Anxiety One Way Temper Anguish Finitude

Book:Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.”

Care Pain Mother Suffering Compassion Cry Baby Arms Anxiety Picks Embrace Take Care Relief Like A Mother

Author:Nhat Hanh

“A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis - to forget about your anxieties, your tensions, your nervousness. Other things can do the same - chewing gum can do the same, but smoking does it the best. In your deep unconscious, smoking is related with sucking milk from your mother's breast. And as civilization has grown, no woman wants the child to be brought up by breast-feeding - naturally; he will destroy the breast. The breast will lose its roundness, its beauty.”

“The moment I realized God existed, I knew that I could not do othewise than to live for Him Alone...Faith strips the mask from the world and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger and fear, so the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy--like a child, hand and hand with his mother.”

World Children Moments God Hands Joy Mother Faith Danger Anxiety Profound Believer I Realized Peaceful Mask Meaningless God Exists

Author:Charles de Foucauld

“[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.”

Life Long Home Pain Mother Speak Steps Duty Source Anxiety Letters Posts Ease Etc Coming Home Anxious Long Life Source Of Life

Author:Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

“Solitude is the mother of anxieties.”

Mother Solitude Anxiety

Author:Publilius Syrus

“The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.”

Needs Believe Children Art Made Moments Mother Sex Decision Mistake Anxiety Gains Function Motherhood Engaged Making Mistakes Crucial Bad Decision

Book:Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

Source: Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

“The person who really needs the psychotherapy (...) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist's office by his mother, but the mother, to releive her anxieties about his homosexuality.”

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Author:Frank Kameny

“Someone once told me not to be afraid of being afraid, because, as she said, 'Anxiety is a glimpse of your own daring.' Isn't that great? It means that part of your agitation is just excitement about what you're getting ready to accomplish. Don't sell yourself short by being so afraid of failure that you don't dare to make any mistakes. Make your mistakes and learn from them. And remember: No matter how many mistakes you make, your mother always loves you!”

Mean Said Matter Remember Mother Mistake Love You Ready Anxiety Sells Dare Accomplish Excitement Daring Glimpse Being Afraid Agitation Afraid Of Failure Always Love You Yourself Short

Author:Maria Shriver

“When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.”

Mother Virtue Our Lives Discipline Easier Anxiety Have Faith

Author:Chico Xavier

“Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.”

Heart Children Mother Speak Greater Ought Anxiety Affection Nurse Inches Feeding Breastfeeding

Author:Plutarch

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