Quotes about Anxiety (588 quotes)

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Votes: 6

Soren Kierkegaard

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. Votes: 5

T. S. Eliot

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Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. Votes: 5

Chuck Jones

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Anxiety has afflicted me all my life. Votes: 4

Scott Stossel

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Anxiety and stress derive from fear and self-doubt. Votes: 4

Debasish Mridha

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Votes: 4

Henry Ward Beecher

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...Anxiety beclouds the future... Votes: 3

Abraham Lincoln

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Anxiety is loves greatest killer. Votes: 3

Anais Nin

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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. Votes: 3

Chuck Jones

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Anxiety, it just stops your life. Votes: 3

Amanda Seyfried

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Love is the absence of Anxiety. Votes: 3

Wilhelm Reich

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Anxiety is the fear of one's self. Votes: 3

Wilhelm Stekel

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Anxiety is the normality of our age, Votes: 3

Alex Colville

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Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance. Votes: 3

Josh Billings

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Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. Votes: 3

Alain de Botton

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Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. Votes: 3

Thomas Merton

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Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control. Votes: 3

Beth Moore

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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. Votes: 3

Norman Mailer

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Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Anxiety is the gap between now and later. Votes: 3

Frederick Salomon Perls

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Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm. Votes: 3

Harriet Lerner

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Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving. Votes: 3

Michael Dolan

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Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head Votes: 3

James Altucher

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Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective. Votes: 3

Saul Bellow

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Anxiety is simply living out the future before it gets here. Votes: 3

Kevin DeYoung

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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Votes: 3

Henry Ford

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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Votes: 3

Albert Camus

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Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life. Votes: 3

George Vaillant

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Votes: 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense. Votes: 3

Samuel Rush Meyrick

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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. Votes: 3

Joseph Wood Krutch

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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Votes: 3

Ovid

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Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind. Votes: 3

Eda LeShan

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Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning. Votes: 3

Anais Nin

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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. Votes: 3

William James

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Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it. Votes: 3

Smiley Blanton

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Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad. Votes: 3

Solomon

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It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up. Votes: 3

David Walliams

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. Votes: 3

George Bernard Shaw

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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Votes: 3

Hermann Hesse

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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. Votes: 3

Charles Spurgeon

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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear. Votes: 3

Barbara Brown Taylor

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Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass. Votes: 3

Rajneesh

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Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of Votes: 3

Mark Driscoll

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Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind. Votes: 3

Judith S. Beck

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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. Votes: 3

Alan Watts

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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. Votes: 3

Tryon Edwards

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Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. Votes: 3

Isabel Allende

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Votes: 3

Bill Cosby

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When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago. Votes: 3

Amy Clampitt

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Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. Votes: 3

Glenn Turner

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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells. Votes: 3

Terence McKenna

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If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. Votes: 3

Amit Ray

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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. Votes: 3

Nhat Hanh

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Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will. Votes: 3

Billy Graham

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Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer. Votes: 3

Pio of Pietrelcina

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Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. Votes: 3

Charles Frankel

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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. Votes: 3

Angela Carter

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Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing. Votes: 3

Seth Godin

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I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash? Votes: 3

Robin McKinley

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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. Votes: 3

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. Votes: 3

Barry Levinson

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Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan. Votes: 3

Count of St. Germain

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It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. Votes: 3

Charles Spurgeon

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Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last. Votes: 3

Ralph Keyes

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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. Votes: 3

Donald Grant Mitchell

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No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters. Votes: 3

Max Lucado

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Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you're not scared, you're not writing. Votes: 3

Ralph Keyes

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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. Votes: 3

Marshall McLuhan

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Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. Votes: 3

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. Votes: 3

Henry Ward Beecher

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Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger. Votes: 3

Robin Marantz Henig

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Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it. Votes: 3

Matt Groening

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Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry. Votes: 3

Saint Francis de Sales

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As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety. Votes: 3

Marshall Fishwick

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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love. Votes: 3

Sigmund Freud

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Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple. Votes: 3

Lucy Grealy

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Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm. Votes: 3

Lucy Freeman

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Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense. Votes: 3

Bruce Lee

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Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help. Votes: 3

Chelsea Manning

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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within. Votes: 3

David Duchovny

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The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. Votes: 3

Tennessee Williams

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Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free. Votes: 3

Nhat Hanh

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Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. Votes: 3

Corrie Ten Boom

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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. Votes: 3

Anais Nin

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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Votes: 3

Dale Carnegie

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You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. Votes: 3

Wallace D. Wattles

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The bow too tensely strung is easily broken Votes: 1

Publius Syrus

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Votes: 1

Plato

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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. Votes: 1

Rose Kennedy

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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Votes: 1

Aesop

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I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting Votes: 1

Roy Lichtenstein

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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself Votes: 1

Mark Rutherford

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape Votes: 1

George Santayana

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Do you want to know the surefire way to stay anxious? Don't do the thing that makes you nervous! Votes: 1

Larina Kase

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It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age. Votes: 1

Amanda Seyfried

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I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am. Votes: 1

Dakota Johnson

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I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time. Votes: 1

Tom Wilson

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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Votes: 1

Sigmund Freud

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This life style man it cost a bit The anxiety I'm exhausted with One day they'll say he just lost his shit. Votes: 1

G-Eazy

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The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries Votes: 1

Milan Kundera

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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. Votes: 1

Thomas a Kempis

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That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. Votes: 1

Philip Pullman

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We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal Votes: 1

Ingrid Bergman

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I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. Votes: 1

Shawn Johnson

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A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. Votes: 1

Millicent Fawcett

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Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety. Votes: 1

Scott Stossel

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The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change. Votes: 1

Paul Hawken

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The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that. Votes: 1

Matthew Quick

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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. Votes: 1

Eckhart Tolle

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do. Votes: 1

Wayne Dyer

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. Votes: 1

John Kenneth Galbraith

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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. Votes: 1

Martin Heidegger

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I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it Votes: 1

Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. Votes: 1

Grenville Kleiser

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Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends. Votes: 1

Jenny Lawson

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If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. Votes: 1

Kris Carr

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There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore - for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help. Votes: 1

Howie Mandel

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I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. Votes: 1

Tom Hooper

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Verily, affluence brings anxiety! Votes: 0

Anne Ellis

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Stupidity is without anxiety. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Literature is achieved anxiety. Votes: 0

Harold Bloom

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Nothing quells anxiety like action! Votes: 0

Walter Inglis Anderson

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Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry Votes: 0

Eckhart Tolle

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All publicity works upon anxiety. Votes: 0

John Berger

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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. Votes: 0

Walter Inglis Anderson

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Happiness lies in simplicityComplexity brings anxiety. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Love eliminates fear. Love eliminates anxiety. Votes: 0

Lester Levenson

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Now is the age of anxiety. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety. Votes: 0

Soren Kierkegaard

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Kindness is the cause of all anxiety. Votes: 0

David D. Burns

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Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger. Votes: 0

Horace

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Do not have any anxiety about anything. Votes: 0

Kenneth E. Hagin

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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. Votes: 0

Jack Nicklaus

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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety. Votes: 0

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine, Votes: 0

Robert A. Caro

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When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness. Votes: 0

Harriet Lerner

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I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot. Votes: 0

Amanda Seyfried

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Growing up, I was prone to anxiety. Votes: 0

Jane McGonigal

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I have a lot of health anxiety. Votes: 0

Charlie Kaufman

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Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Without anxiety life would have very little savor. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind. Votes: 0

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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The quickest way to relieve anxiety is ACTION! Votes: 0

Walter Inglis Anderson

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I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams. Votes: 0

Keeley Hawes

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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me. Votes: 0

David Nicholls

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I had turned my anxiety into my profession. Votes: 0

Francois Jacob

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Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety. Votes: 0

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility. Votes: 0

Tim Kaine

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what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? Votes: 0

Jonathan Lethem

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Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Votes: 0

Zygmunt Bauman

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Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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All Americans suffer from anxiety; it's a national disease. Votes: 0

Helen Nielsen

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In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety. Votes: 0

Bethenny Frankel

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I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life... Votes: 0

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety. Votes: 0

Plato

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Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools. Votes: 0

David Addington

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports. Votes: 0

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If you can believe, worry and anxiety will vanish Votes: 0

T. B. Joshua

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A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks. Votes: 0

Rosanne Cash

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I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather. Votes: 0

John Burroughs

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Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear. Votes: 0

Marcus Buckingham

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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. Votes: 0

Irvin D. Yalom

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I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness. Votes: 0

Tom Cochrane

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I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety. Votes: 0

George Murray

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Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor. Votes: 0

Liz Miller

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Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. Votes: 0

Lawrence Durrell

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The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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Allow love to fill the places where anxiety now resides. Votes: 0

Ralph Marston

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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end. Votes: 0

George Muller

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Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up. Votes: 0

Octavia Butler

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Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not Votes: 0

Albert Bandura

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I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety. Votes: 0

Junot Diaz

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The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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I think people with anxiety do different things during different years. Votes: 0

Jen Kirkman

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... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,... Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression. Votes: 0

Harold Ramis

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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism. Votes: 0

Sextus Empiricus

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My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed. Votes: 0

Richard Lewis

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Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. Votes: 0

Confucius

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Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression. Votes: 0

Amit Ray

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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself. Votes: 0

Soren Kierkegaard

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If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord Votes: 0

Charles Stanley

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We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety. Votes: 0

Daniel Yergin

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Let go of all your anxiety. Embrace the peace of God. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety Votes: 0

Woody Allen

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A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety. Votes: 0

John Dufresne

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Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking. Votes: 0

B.K.S. Iyengar

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Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them. Votes: 0

Babur

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Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy. Votes: 0

Radhanath Swami

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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God. Votes: 0

Ann Voskamp

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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable. Votes: 0

Dick Cavett

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Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. Votes: 0

Virgil

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I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking. Votes: 0

Gertrude Berg

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Satan wants anxiety to hinder us from becoming effective servants of Christ. Votes: 0

Lysa TerKeurst

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Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer! Votes: 0

Evinda Lepins

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Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry. Votes: 0

Brian Richardson

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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing. Votes: 0

Truman Capote

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More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. Votes: 0

Saint Francis de Sales

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Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves. Votes: 0

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety. Votes: 0

Francois Fenelon

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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees. Votes: 0

R. C. Sproul

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Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead. Votes: 0

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis. Votes: 0

Nelson DeMille

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I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety. Votes: 0

Zoe Sugg

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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. Votes: 0

Demosthenes

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You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety. Votes: 0

Toks Olagundoye

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Life is like The Muppet Show, but instead of Muppets there's anxiety. Votes: 0

Dana Gould

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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master Votes: 0

Demosthenes

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My main concern is with the anxiety that has settled upon America. Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety Votes: 0

Caleb Carr

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A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better. Votes: 0

Ricky Williams

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The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. Votes: 0

Alexandra David-Neel

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I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral. Votes: 0

Brian Richardson

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Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them. Votes: 0

Albert Ellis

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To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Votes: 0

Boyd K. Packer

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry. Votes: 0

Derek Bok

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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. Votes: 0

Laura Linney

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True Love gives you Peace! It doesn't consume you with anxiety, that's lust! Votes: 0

Tony Gaskins

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Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them. Votes: 0

Chip Conley

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The Sniper must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety and remorse, Votes: 0

Craig Roberts

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The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed. Votes: 0

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style. Votes: 0

Tawfiq al-Hakim

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Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? Votes: 0

Thomas a Kempis

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I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend. Votes: 0

Noah Baumbach

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A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. Votes: 0

Pauline Kael

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When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation. Votes: 0

Monica Drake

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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it Votes: 0

Carl Sagan

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The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry. Votes: 0

Ben Schwartz

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Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. Votes: 0

Peter Carey

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Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. Votes: 0

E. Stanley Jones

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The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Votes: 0

Erich Fromm

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The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated. Votes: 0

Barbara Tuchman

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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety. Votes: 0

Anne Enright

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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. Votes: 0

Mitch Kapor

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People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom. Votes: 0

Woody Allen

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Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. Votes: 0

Northrop Frye

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Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. Votes: 0

Edvard Munch

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I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation. Votes: 0

Rose Byrne

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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. Votes: 0

Wendell Phillips

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I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras! Votes: 0

Zach Woodlee

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We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. Votes: 0

Augustus William Hare

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See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics. Votes: 0

Woody Allen

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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell. Votes: 0

Michael Josephson

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I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. Votes: 0

David Crabb

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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier. Votes: 0

Ann Voskamp

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Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. Votes: 0

Robert Motherwell

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You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious. Votes: 0

Bill Crawford

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I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical. Votes: 0

Autre Ne Veut

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Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York. Votes: 0

Edward Ruscha

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Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me. Votes: 0

Ricky Williams

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Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are. Votes: 0

Stefan Molyneux

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Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield. Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is. Votes: 0

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead. Votes: 0

Russell Simmons

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The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear. Votes: 0

Confucius

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I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it. Votes: 0

Zach Galifianakis

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Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety. Votes: 0

Gabrielle Bernstein

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The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action. Votes: 0

Harold Bridgwood Walker

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Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. Votes: 0

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety. Votes: 0

Tony Gilroy

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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body. Votes: 0

Simone de Beauvoir

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I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace. Votes: 0

David D. Burns

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Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration. Votes: 0

Austin Butler

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There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs. Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making. Votes: 0

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas. Votes: 0

John F. Carlson

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In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you. Votes: 0

Albert Ellis

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An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything. Votes: 0

Elbridge Bryant

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I made things a lot harder than they needed to be out of fear and anxiety. Votes: 0

Sutton Foster

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In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. Votes: 0

Julian Barnes

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It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand. Votes: 0

Peter Stuyvesant

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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Carey

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Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. Votes: 0

Bruce Lee

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My thoughts suffering a whirlwind of anxiety that slices through me like thousands of paper cuts. Votes: 0

Evelyn Leilou Colon

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The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. Votes: 0

Erasmus Darwin

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Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to. Votes: 0

Michael Chabon

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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit. Votes: 0

Vanessa Marcil

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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. Votes: 0

Kahlil Gibran

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Free your hearts of anxiety, pain and anger, to have peace within your heart and soul. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.' Votes: 0

Gia Coppola

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The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection. Votes: 0

Tara Brach

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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. Votes: 0

Ram Dass

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I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks. Votes: 0

Dane Cook

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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections. Votes: 0

Dogen

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I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety. Votes: 0

Jessica Chastain

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There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas. Votes: 0

Suzanne Falter-Barns

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Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. Votes: 0

Laura Bush

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Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say Votes: 0

George Eliot

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease. Votes: 0

T.F. Hodge

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I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality. Votes: 0

Lori Nelson

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Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. Votes: 0

Rick Bayan

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I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety. Votes: 0

Julia Stiles

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The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. Votes: 0

Edward Ruscha

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A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety. Votes: 0

Daniel Yergin

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I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person. Votes: 0

Michaela Watkins

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To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.' Votes: 0

Jessica Chastain

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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten. Votes: 0

Paul Tillich

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When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities. Votes: 0

Charles R. Swindoll

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My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions. Votes: 0

Chris Pine

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Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs. Votes: 0

Tanc Sade

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. Votes: 0

George Dennison Prentice

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I do find working with people in the entertainment industry hard. It can cause anxiety and depression. Votes: 0

Tavi Gevinson

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Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation. Votes: 0

Lala Lajpat Rai

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Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. Votes: 0

Anatole Broyard

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When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning Votes: 0

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff. Votes: 0

Art Alexakis

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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! Votes: 0

Dante Alighieri

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Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love. Votes: 0

Mariah Nelson

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I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety Votes: 0

Carol Ann Duffy

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Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing. Votes: 0

Sarah Manguso

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When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life! Votes: 0

Bill Crawford

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Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with. Votes: 0

Ricky Williams

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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time. Votes: 0

Sade Adu

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety. Votes: 0

Grimes

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For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety. Votes: 0

Rob Corddry

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For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy. Votes: 0

Emily Oster

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As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic Votes: 0

Dalia Mogahed

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Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite. Votes: 0

Alain de Botton

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A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'? Votes: 0

Andy Stanley

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Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? Votes: 0

John Adams

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Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go. Votes: 0

Judith Orloff

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Enjoy the beauty of simplicity and slowness of life, let go of urgency, stress, and anxiety of life. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety. Votes: 0

Bob Beauprez

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By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety. Votes: 0

Dale Carnegie

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Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged. Votes: 0

Nina Easton

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The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more. Votes: 0

Horatio Nelson

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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. Votes: 0

Esther Perel

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...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety... Votes: 0

Karl Barth

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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. Votes: 0

Alain de Botton

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as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered. Votes: 0

Alain de Botton

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FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant. Votes: 0

Bill Phillips

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Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't. Votes: 0

Jenni Schaefer

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When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails. Votes: 0

James McAvoy

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When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. Votes: 0

Robert Evans

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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself. Votes: 0

Zoe Saldana

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If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear. Votes: 0

Confucius

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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man. Votes: 0

Andre Gide

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How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched. Votes: 0

Evangeline Lilly

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Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime. Votes: 0

Earl Nightingale

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The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap. Votes: 0

Andrew Kaufman

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There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture. Votes: 0

Autre Ne Veut

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Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety. Votes: 0

Tommy Franks

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Every heart has an atmosphere. What is the atmosphere of your heart? Nothing good develops in an atmosphere of anxiety Votes: 0

Steven Furtick

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I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently. Votes: 0

Ishmael Reed

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There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated. Votes: 0

Mara Liasson

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Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. Votes: 0

George Muller

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When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened. Votes: 0

David Kim

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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. Votes: 0

Paul Tillich

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The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity. Votes: 0

Alex Caceres

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My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne. Votes: 0

Tina Fey

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Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle. Votes: 0

Diane Sawyer

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Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. Votes: 0

Howard Barker

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I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks. Votes: 0

Moby

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If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research. Votes: 0

Andrew Saul

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The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure. Votes: 0

Morihei Ueshiba

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There's always anxiety when you start a new job, you're the one guy who doesn't know where the ketchup is. Votes: 0

Jon Stewart

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Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around. Votes: 0

Tove Jansson

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The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness. Votes: 0

Mark Shields

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We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus. Votes: 0

Margaret Mary Alacoque

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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful. Votes: 0

Edwin H Friedman

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A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background. Votes: 0

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide. Votes: 0

Pattie Mallette

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I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. Votes: 0

Leonard Baskin

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Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love. Votes: 0

Paul of the Cross

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An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water. Votes: 0

Eric Maisel

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Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway. Votes: 0

Douglas Conant

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You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. Votes: 0

George Stephanopoulos

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One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control. Votes: 0

David Cottrell

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There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework. Votes: 0

Autre Ne Veut

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The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him. Votes: 0

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement. Votes: 0

Francois Fenelon

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When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks. Votes: 0

Stephen Baxter

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The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". Votes: 0

Alain de Botton

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At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. Votes: 0

Nigella Lawson

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Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we're focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide. Votes: 0

Gabrielle Bernstein

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I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about. Votes: 0

Scott Stossel

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The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more! Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety? Votes: 0

Daniel Goleman

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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought. Votes: 0

Binnie Kirshenbaum

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If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool. Votes: 0

Rita Coolidge

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Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. Votes: 0

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer. Votes: 0

Charles R. Swindoll

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Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life. Votes: 0

Lars von Trier

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One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all. Votes: 0

Richard Saul Wurman

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Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually. Votes: 0

Chris Prentiss

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I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression. Votes: 0

Autre Ne Veut

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. Votes: 0

Irvin D. Yalom

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We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die. Votes: 0

Joko Beck

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the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance. Votes: 0

Mary Astor

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I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. Votes: 0

Robert Harris

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The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries. Votes: 0

Milan Kundera

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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness"domains soaked in anxiety. Votes: 0

Irvin D. Yalom

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I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work. Votes: 0

Steny Hoyer

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The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. Votes: 0

Paul Tillich

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Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself. Votes: 0

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen. Votes: 0

Lysa TerKeurst

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You donât experience anxiety unless youâre attached to a thought that isnât true for you. Itâs that simple. Votes: 0

Byron Katie

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Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it. Votes: 0

Jacob Collins

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For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety. Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged. Votes: 0

Indira Gandhi

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'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts. Votes: 0

John Ortberg

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Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all. Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy

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The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself. Votes: 0

David Allen

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Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts. Votes: 0

John Ortberg

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First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease. Votes: 0

John Assaraf

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A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. Votes: 0

John P. Kotter

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Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line. Votes: 0

Robert Anthony

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Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. Votes: 0

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective. Votes: 0

Vince Gilligan

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When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it. Votes: 0

Hamilton Leithauser

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I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch. Votes: 0

Rebecca Wells

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In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry. Votes: 0

Cam Gigandet

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My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental. Votes: 0

Sufjan Stevens

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Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else. Votes: 0

Diane Ackerman

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage. Votes: 0

Jay Mohr

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What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety. Votes: 0

Aneurin Bevan

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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. Votes: 0

John Lubbock

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The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range. Votes: 0

Martin Seligman

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The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. Votes: 0

Alain de Botton

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Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more. Votes: 0

Dale Carnegie

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Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety. Votes: 0

Joe Moore

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It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life. Votes: 0

Eckhart Tolle

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Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop. Votes: 0

Vanessa Carlton

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Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity. Votes: 0

Eric Maisel

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One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Votes: 0

Edvard Munch

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The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock. Votes: 0

Katharine Graham

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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this. Votes: 0

Clive Barker

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I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going. Votes: 0

Alison Hawthorne Deming

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I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack. Votes: 0

Carly Simon

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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am. Votes: 0

Walton Goggins

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All the anxiety over small things had burned off me in the fire of reentry, the fire of being afraid I was going to die. Votes: 0

Jennifer Hayden

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I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety. Votes: 0

Helen Gurley Brown

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The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free. Votes: 0

Leon Brown

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You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process. Votes: 0

Meryl Streep

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Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me. Votes: 0

Frank Luntz

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We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well. Votes: 0

Maura Tierney

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I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety. Votes: 0

Alona Tal

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You don't feel like you have to interact with a whole bunch of people when you get on Flipboard. It's not a source of social anxiety. Votes: 0

Mike McCue

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I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety. Votes: 0

Alona Tal

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I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die. Votes: 0

B. F. Skinner

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A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly. Votes: 0

Desmond Tutu

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Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny. Votes: 0

Alain de Botton

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How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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The thing is that I had no fear; no anxiety. I had this peace come over me and I just knew that word from the Lord was truth. Votes: 0

Shirley Boone

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I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set. Votes: 0

Stephanie Seymour

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