Quotes by Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

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There is no such thing as a good decision and a bad decision. There are only decisions. Make them, fuck up, enjoy, repea — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, "Even if you don't want — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
First, contrary to popular belief, Buddhists can actually be very anxious people. That’s often why they become Buddhists — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins. — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
But a child is a sensitive instrument. You can hide the factual truth from a child, but you can't blanket influence. You — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it. — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your gr — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard! — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn’t a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind. — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
Yet I also felt, for the first time, truly and sincerely pissed. It was enough already. Enough! I’d reached that point t — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
...Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary things like war an — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
One of the things anxiety educates you in is how deeply physical thought can be, how concrete. In anxiety, there is no t — Daniel Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety