Anxiety Quotes - Page 4

• Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

  Epictetus

  Real, Men, Problem

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• There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

  Fred Durst

  Insecure, Giving, Feelings

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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.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Cutting, Vain

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Laughter, Struggle

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934

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• If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Worry, Anxious, Ifs

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Hands, Littles, Powder

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• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

  Paul Fussell

  Native American, College, People

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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• My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Suicide, Drug

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alexander Pope

  Food, Health, Disease

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

  Paul Tillich

  Courage, Doubt, Rooted

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.193, University of Chicago Press

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

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, Dollars, Barrels

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• The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Daughter, Lying, Son

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• Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

  Paul Tillich

  Doubt, Castles, Existential

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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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Jobs, Yesterday

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• We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

  Winston Churchill

  Military

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Onwards to Victory”, p.357, RosettaBooks

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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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Loss, Expression

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three contributions to the theory of sex”, Plume

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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.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Desire, Painful

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.3648, Delphi Classics

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• Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

  David D. Burns

  Kindness, Causes

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• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Isabel Allende

  Fear, Accepting, Inevitable

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• Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is.

  Gerald May

  Peace, Lying, Ocean

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