People like to help, providing they can do it reasonably easily

Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor.

I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.

I don't think people should be running to get in the fund before it closes, ... lots of ways to get participation.

As you focus on calming your breathing, your anxiety will quickly reduce and you will start to think clearly again. This is especially important if you feel a panic attack coming on.

The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.

Friends and family matter most during hard times.

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time

Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.