Quotes by : Daniel Smith

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.....

I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

One of the things anxiety educates you in is how deeply physical thought can be, how concrete. In anxiety,....

Yet I also felt, for the first time, truly and sincerely pissed. It was enough already. Enough! I’d....

Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.

Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, "Even....

...Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary....

If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do....

But a child is a sensitive instrument. You can hide the factual truth from a child, but you can't blanket....

If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn’t a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama....