Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

It is human, to want to feel connected with others, to strive for a sense of belonging.Yet the ultimate hack is is to be — Reshan Pillai

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather. Here — Stephen Fry

The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity — Matt Haig

I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so — Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John

$There is a moment, if you trip or slip, before your hand shoots out to break your fall, when you feel the earth rushing up at you and you cannot help yourself, a passing, fraction-of-a-second terror. — Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression$

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Some days I just want to climb inside my own skin and hide. — TinaJ. Richardson

To accept a little death is worse than death itself. — Frank Herbert, Dune

the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person. — Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord

When both she and I had to deal with our respective demons, my sister saw the darkness as being within and part of herse — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But — Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

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