Emily

“I definitely feel very empowered to do a lot of good things--but there's also so much pressure to not only make a lot of choices but to really have it all. It's great that we can have it all, but I think that everyone now feels that there's this overwhelming responsibility to have it all, to really do something profound. Versus just, you know, be happy and get by.”
― Barbara Kelley, Undecided: How to Ditch the Endless Quest for Perfect and Find the Career -- and Life --That's Right for You

“This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.”
― Daniel B. 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 thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing threats too readily.”
― Daniel B. Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

“The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that’s trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that’s nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head. The hard work is in learning to step back and analyze the data dispassionately.”
― Daniel B. Smith, Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety