“Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.” IfsWorldWayWantUseLightHopeImaginationVisionFocusImagineFutureAnxietyShiningThriveBrighter Author:Ian Lawton
“Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.” MenHas BeensBeautifulNightLossSkyMoonAnxietyShiningDisasterMarsSplendidTrinityVenus Author:Janet Flanner
“Are you in a hurry, flurried, distressed? Look up! See the Man in the Glory! Let the face of Jesus shine upon you—the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is He worried, troubled, distressed? There is no wrinkle on His brow, no least shade of anxiety. Yet the affairs are His as much as yours.” MenLooksFacesJesusChristLordHe ManAnxietyGloryJesus ChristShiningAffairWorriedLook UpShadeWrinklesBrowsLord Jesus Christ Author:Hudson Taylor
“Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.” MindHeartJoyRoomsInspireRight NowAnxietyBreathsShiningGlancesHeart And MindPostureRippleTransmitOpen HeartMuddySuperior Man Book:Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex
“Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different. Maybe it was because I no longer had a boyfriend or fiance. I suddenly recognized that there was safety in having someone, as well as a lack of pressure to shine. Ironically, this had cultivated a certain free-spiritedness that had, in turn, allowed me to be the life of the party and hoard the affection of additional men....But that had all changed. I didn't have a boyfriend, a perfect figure, or alcohol-induced outrageousness to fall back on.” MenWellsDifferentFeelingsRememberCertainTurnsFallFeltPerfectPartyEmotionFiguresNew YorkChangedAnxietyPressureSafetyShiningAffectionAlcoholTonightFall BackFiance Author:Emily Giffin
“I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.” ThinkingKnowsWantedPeriodsAnxietyShotsStressShiningNot SurePanicRestlessPanic Attacks Author:Geoffrey Rush
“If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.” IfsThinkingMenEnjoyMetsAnxietyDeterminationShiningEnvyFinanceMy TimeBoxingFrustrationLabourKnightsBoxersArmourEnvy MeKnight In Shining Armour Author:Don King
“Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.” NightStarsAnxietyDifficultyShining Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the serene summer days; they quietly open their petals, and the sun shines into them with its gentle influences. So I will do for you, if you will yield yourself to me.” IfsLooksLittlesSelfGodSunInfluenceFlowerAnxietySummerLaborShiningGentleYieldSerenePetalsSun ShinesSelf WillSummer Days Author:Gerhard Tersteegen
“I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?” IfsKnowsWantNeedsDoeI CanSoulSelfMomentsJoyGrowsOur LivesAnxietyShiningSupremeHealHolesBreadMy SoulRealizationTrust In GodRemedyTrustedSoupUrgentPolishCondemnationFacetsSuffocating Author:Ann Voskamp