“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
“The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.” TryingYearsRealHardLyingDangerHard WorkAnxietyBullySadistic Book:Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety Source: Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.” GivingStillsSelfHardTurnsForceAnxietyAll ThingsCalmMotherhoodVanityDenialSelfishnessHeatFierceGlancesSubmissionDefianceForesightAdmiringTimiditySelf-denialThoughtlessness Book:Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Scenes of Clerical Life