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Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.

- Charles Lamb

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.

- William Congreve

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

- Bible

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

- Ann Landers

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

- Dinah Shore

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

- Rollo May

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

- Jean Anouilh

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

- Paul Tillich

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

- Wilhelm Stekel

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

- Malcolm Lowry

Worries go down better with soup than without.

- Jewish proverb

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

- Karl Menninger

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

- Dean William R. Inge

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

There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four, but he worries about it.

- Anonymous

Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us.

- Marcel Proust

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

- Thornton Wilder