Helene Usher

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“Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

tags: anxiety, distraction

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“The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: anxiety, discipleship, distraction

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“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: anxiety, peace-of-mind

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“No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

tags: anxiety, fear, philosophy, roman

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“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu

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