Anxiety Quotes - Page 27

• Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Jobs, Dad, Children

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• Verily, affluence brings anxiety!

  Anne Ellis

  Affluence, Wealth

  Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.96, U of Nebraska Press

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• The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome.

  Goliarda Sapienza

  Swings, Tree, Forever

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• Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

  Vivian Gornick

  Boredom, Papa, Causes

  Vivian Gornick (2005). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, p.23, Macmillan

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

  Moby

  Coffee, Giving, Bitter

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Needs, Way

  Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

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• Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Drug, Way

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stress, Meditation, Mind

  "Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Worry, Doe, Tools

  Jacqueline Winspear (2012). “Elegy for Eddie”, p.246, Allison & Busby

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• In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.

  Beverly Pepper

  Suicide, Art, Thinking

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• What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.

  Jo Coudert

  Thinking, Light, Self

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.144, iUniverse

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• A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.

  Jo Coudert

  Sex, Loneliness, Roots

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• Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Worry, Feelings, Dynamics

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• The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Wise, Disappointment, Expectations

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• One study on the treatment of asthma patients conducted by researchers John Goyeche, Dr. Ago, and Dr. Ikemi, suggests that any effective treatment should address suppressed emotions-such as anxiety and self-image-as well as the physical dimension. To achieve this, they encourage correction of poor posture, and helping the person relax the irrelevant respiratory muscles while restoring full diaphragmatic breathing. They also recommended finding ways for getting rid of excess mucus. The good news is that a well rounded breath practice will do all these things.

  Donna Farhi

  Self, Practice, Breathing

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• Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.

  Aimee Liu

  Safety, Inward, World

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

  Michaela Watkins

  Thinking, Nervousness, Persons

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• There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food.

  Lisa Ann Walter

  Views, Temptation, Stopping

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• Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

  Jean Dujardin

  Thinking, Half, Too Much

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• Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

  Horace

  Hopes And Fears

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• Better be with the dead,
  Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
  Than on the torture of the mind to lie
  In restless ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Mind, Suffering

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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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?

  Daniel Goleman

  School, Boredom, Doe

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.157, Bantam

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• I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

  Eden Sher

  Teenager, Thinking, Peers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

  Stephen Mangan

  Reading, Book, Character

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• ...I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created Hell for those who don't believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I'm sorry, but... no. Wrong. You're wrong. That's an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don't you get it?

  Bill Hicks

  Sorry, Children, Believe

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