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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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.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Arthur Somers Roche

Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

Michel de Montaigne

The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all.

Marcus Aurelius

Cultivate calm and stillness: let go of anxiety as a lifestyle.

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