When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

Bessel van der Kolk

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Nervous people tend to overreact.

Todo este apresuramiento de un lugar a otro no te traerá ningún alivio, porque estás viajando en compañía de tus propias emociones, seguidas de tus problemas durante todo el camino.

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

Si estás deprimido, estás viviendo en el pasado. Si estás ansioso, estás viviendo en el futuro. Si estás en paz, estás viviendo en el presente.

When you feel afraid or nervous to do a thing then do it because the real harm which you may thus receive is less poignant than its expectation and fear.

Ali bin AbuTalib

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher

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