All too frequently, anxiety crushes not only your spirit and your potential, but your ability to take care of your mind and body. – Jonathan Davidson and Henry Dreher, The Anxiety Book: Developing Strength in the
Concentrating to within an inch of your life on the pre-flight safety briefing, to compensate for those ignoring it. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse
When he is in the room with other persons, speech stops, as if there were a corpse in the apartment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very
The conversation at dinner had been so heated that by the end of it Mrs. Miniver had developed mental, moral, and physical indigestion….. [F]rom that moment on she resigned herself to a headache, and got it. – Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. – Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), journal, January 1927
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. – Cat Stevens
