Anxiety Quotes - Page 26

• we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

  Margaret Deland

  Responsibility, Loss, Sorrow

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Wings, Foolish

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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.

  Mary Astor

  Laughter, Boys, Laughing

  Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”

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• I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

  Jane Bowles

  Cutting, Thinking, Strange

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

  William Matthews

  Character, Giving, Experience

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• The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Ignorance, Light, Simplicity

  Thomas Chalmers (1836). “Works”, p.314

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• We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

  Harriet Martineau

  Feelings, Looks, Care

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• All Americans suffer from anxiety; it's a national disease.

  Helen Nielsen

  Suffering, United States, Disease

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• Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.

  Stella Benson

  Fall, Men, Race

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• To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.

  John Tillotson

  Happiness, Pain, Mind

  John Tillotson (1819). “The wisdom of being religious”, p.26

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• When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Happiness, Spring, Trouble

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• What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Waiting, Use, Pot

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1102, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Moon, Worry, Doubt

  Malcolm Lowry, Kathleen Dorothy Scherf, Chris Ackerley (1992). “The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry”, p.177, UBC Press

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• The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

  Jane Porter

  Doubt, Overcoming, Fruit

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• The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it also serves to impart a tone of frivolousness and lack of seriousness to ambitious, intellectual, and competitive striving that women may pursue.

  Harriet Lerner

  Girl, Women, Intellectual

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• I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

  Margaret Halsey

  White, Hot, Fifty

  Margaret Halsey (1960). “This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary”

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• The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  People, Today, Way

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• Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

  Indra Devi

  Personality, Gone, Living Once

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• No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Heart, Ambition, Men

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.

  Sue Grafton

  Running, Book, Passion

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• the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

  Melanie Klein

  Life And Death, Instinct, Activity

  Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• ... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.

  Suze Orman

  Over You, Way, Financial

  FaceBook post by Suze Orman from Jun 12, 2015

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• Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

  Alan Watts

  Opposites, Forever, Might

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• A groundbreaking, fast-paced, action-oriented new training program for dealing with mild to moderate anxiety and depression. Self-Coaching is a dramatic and fresh departure from traditional therapeutic approaches and a motivational training program for reclaiming life by breaking the habits that feed these problems.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Self, Coaching, Training

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• Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Done, Panic Attacks, Rockets

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