Distract yourself, that's what Margaret always told him. When you start getting anxious, give your mind something else to think about. He had become an expert at distracting himself. He had distracted himself so much, he found himself drowning in distractions, and all the little details in the world seemed to join up together in his head and make a whole new problem to worry about. Joanna Cannon
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  2. After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love... - Paulo Coelho

  3. Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life! - Allan Rufus

  4. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Unknown

  5. Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. - Unknown

More Quotes By Joanna Cannon
  1. And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.

  2. Distract yourself, that's what Margaret always told him. When you start getting anxious, give your mind something else to think about. He had become an expert at distracting himself. He had distracted himself so much, he found himself drowning in distractions, and all the little...

  3. The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life.

  4. I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.

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