After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

Judith Lewis

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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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