“When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long.” WayTryingLooksPersonsLongStoriesStrongGoneChangedAnxietyWeaknessPanicPanic AttacksEveryone Has A StoryAnxiety Depression Author:Deepika Padukone
“I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.” WritingStoriesHappensAnxietyWorking It Author:Rainbow Rowell
“A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.” FeelsHeartStoriesMoralTeachingAnxietyConceptsCommunicatePower Of Stories Author:Marshall Ganz
“What the American people hope - what they deserve - is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.” PeopleGivingChildrenDifferentStoriesJobsFacesBeliefDifferencesChanceAbilityPayRepublicanAnxietyDeserveOvercomingWeightBillsDemocratBackgroundsAspirationBetter LifeGet AheadNumbingDifferent BackgroundsDifferent Beliefs Author:Barack Obama
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldWritingHumansChildrenLongTwoStoriesAsksSpeakCausesHuman BeingsPartyGeniusCircumstancesNormalAnxietyDistanceSentencesAsk MeInterviewsNativeSubmitTelephonesPatheticDistinguishedGood StoryLong DistanceImpliedSocial AnxietyInsert Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“We are opinionated society. We're very happy to spout forth our own views; we're not good about listening. We have to listen to other's stories. Learn to listen to the stories of the terrorists just as we hope that they will listen to ours because very often these narratives express frustrations, fears, and anxieties that most societies can safely ignore.” StoriesViewsListeningAnxietyTerroristNarrativeFrustrationVery HappyOpinionated Author:Karen Armstrong
“I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.” ThinkingPersonsSelfStoriesAnxietyOvercomingVersionsBlockEngagedInsecurityShynessBest SelfInsecurity And Fear Author:Tom Hooper
“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.” BookSelfStoriesSchoolMotherReadingFoundSocialGrowsHoursTreeSelf EsteemAnxietyLowsSittingSavedEsteemLunchInteractionCheeseCoatsBathroomBrooklynLow Self EsteemMacsChroniclesNarniaSocial InteractionFlashlightsCafeteriaFreezerSchool Cafeteria Author:Jenny Lawson
“When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to figure out if this is your thing or not. You feel like, "if I don't write a good story, I gotta get going to law school!"” IfsFeelsWritingTryingStoriesSchoolLawYoungToo MuchPiecesFiguresAnxietyGood StoryLaw SchoolEmbarking Author:George Saunders
“One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going to, we can just relax and do it. Unfortunately, in my experience, that's not the way it works. The story doesn't want to be told what to do. You have to enter into this process with a high level of trust that the many hours of choosing that you're doing every day will gradually clarify the narrative for you. And that's what happens.” IfsKnowsWayWantStoriesHappensProcessHoursLevelsAnxietyPlanningNarrativeRelaxHigh Level Author:George Saunders
“...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows where, was sealed up there, and lay, like a lake, placidly between its banks.” KnowsYearsBookEndsStoriesDreamReadingHeavenRoomsWorryHappenedLandReturnAnxietyShotsYears AgoTwentiesTablesMovedLaysDrawingLakesFascinatingGood BookUnrealHasteDiningDining RoomsCascade Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.” PeopleWorldGivingTryingMeanReasonPlayStoriesHappensReadingGamesFictionHappenedAnxietyHappeningsFunctionNarrativeImmensityConsoling Author:Umberto Eco
“Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.” WayFeelsBelieveRealSelfFactsStoriesFeelingsBodySeemsDangerBrokenProveElementsAnxietyShameExcuseConvincedWho We AreFuelFearfulTrappedIncapableOngoingBindingLashesTrance Author:Tara Brach
“Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.” BelieveEnoughStoriesWorryWorstAnxietyPreparationOutcomesVivid Book:V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone Source: V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone
“The seventh day of creation is the most eloquent and insightful as to the nature of God. From a literary perspective, the Sabbath forms the pinnacle of the story. Like the dramatic kiss of a soldier returning from war, this is the moment we’re not meant to miss. In choosing rest as the grand finale, God reveals himself as one driven by neither anxiety nor fear but one who finds gladness in both the work of creation and the creation of work.” WarMomentsStoriesFormMissingCreationPerspectiveKissingAnxietySoldierDrivenDramaticInsightfulEloquentSabbathGladnessPinnacleFinale Author:Margaret Feinberg
“The unsparing savagery of stories like “The Robber Bridegroom” is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to the culture of childhood... They capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience.” StoriesCultureFantasyChildhoodAnxietyRootsTalesFairyCaptureFairy TaleRemindersRobbersSavageryDeep RootsBridegroom Author:Maria Tatar
“I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a certain role or if you're going to be employed the next year. It's nice to be comfortable with that and then you can concern yourself with the stories and nothing else. There's no other agenda than putting out a good product.” IfsWantYearsStoriesCertainNextActorsWonderRolesNiceProductsComfortAnxietyComfortableConcernAgendasEmployedNext Year Author:Tim DeKay