"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."

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"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."

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"Worry is a cloud which rains destruction."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Anxiety, Hope, Pressure, Desperation

"Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her trachea."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"One of Coin's men lays a hand on my arm. Its not an aggressive move, really, but after the arena's I react defensively to any unfamiliar touch. I jerk my arm free and take off running down the halls. My mind does a quick inventory of my odd little hiding places and i wind up in the supply closet, curled up against a crate of chalk."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Anxiety, Fear, Safety, Escape, Defense

"Worry is to human beings - what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Anxiety, Truth, Power, Happiness, Regret

"Cath couldn't control whether she saw Levi on campus. But she could worry about it, and as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Anxiety, Worry, Love, Control

"I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?"

Sophie Kinsella, British Author

Anxiety, Technology, Truth, Observation

"And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it."

Rosanne Cash, American Musician

Anxiety, Focus, Limitations, Old

"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."

Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch Public Servant

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"Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?"

Emotion

"He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It's hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: "His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB)."

Faith

"We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'."

Grace

"When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? for us? The clouds open when we mouth thanks."

Renewal

"Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside."

Transition

"Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic."

Commitment

"All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no."

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"Worry is a cloud which rains destruction."

"To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left."

"Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her trachea."

"Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does."

"Worry is to human beings - what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction."

"Cath couldn't control whether she saw Levi on campus. But she could worry about it, and as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled."

"I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?"

"And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it."

"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."

Explore more quotes by Ann Voskamp

"Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?"

"We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'."

"When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? for us? The clouds open when we mouth thanks."

"Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside."

"Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic."

"Hurry always empties a soul."

"I hunger for filling in a world that is starved."

"When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists."

"All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no."