Anxious People Quotes

“We don’t want our children to pursue their own dreams or walk in our footsteps. We want to walk in their footsteps while they pursue our dream.”

″...it’s like saying, ‘Don’t think about cookies,’ and now you’re thinking about cookies.”

“We lie to those we love.”

“It’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”

“The older man thinks the most important thing is for a police officer to do the right thing. the younger thinks it’s more important to do things correctly.”

“She said you can’t protect your kids from life, because life gets us all in the end.”

“In truth, it wasn’t the man on the bridge that made the teenage boy want to be a policeman. It was the teenage girl who was standing on the same railing a week later that made him want it. The one who didn’t jump.”

“That was a parent’s job: to provide shoulders. Shoulders for your children to sit on when they’re little so they can see the world, then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure.”

“Sometimes it’s easier to live with your own anxieties if you know that no one else is happy, either.”

“Too much time has passed for the father to ask his son how he’s doing, too much time for the son to be able to explain. The distance between them is too great now.”