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

  Andre Gide

  Men, Brain, Becoming

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• There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.

  Joss Stone

  Home, People, Benefits

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• Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end.

  George Muller

  Ends

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• The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.

  William C. Menninger

  Reality, Emotional, Maturity

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• Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.

  Philip Kitcher

  Vanity, Historical, Progress

  Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

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• Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Data, Black, Needs

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• It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

  Edward Bunker

  Pain, Agony, Broken

  Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.261, Oldcastle Books

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• Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Soul, Deception

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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.

  Matt Groening

  Doe, Good And Bad, Examining

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Motivation, Mean, Discovery

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Kids can be cruel enough as it is, but cyber bullying or you're on Instagram and see your friends are all somewhere and you're not there. Then it's like, "Why am I not there?" Girls are using apps to change the way their faces look so the look quote-unquote perfect and beautiful. I feel like kids these days, it's gotta be just a big ball of anxiety.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Beautiful, Girl, Bullying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When we're concrete about our writing time, it alleviates that thin constant feeling of anxiety that writers have - we're barbecuing hot dogs, riding a bike, sailing out in the bay, shopping for shoes, even helping a sick friend, but somewhere nervously at the periphery of our perception we know we belong somewhere else - at our desk!

  Natalie Goldberg

  Dog, Writing, Somewhere Else

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.78, Open Road Media

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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.

  Francois Fenelon

  Views, Soul, Advancement

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• The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Ignorance, People, Humanity

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• Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

  William James

  Experts, Saint, Finals

  William James (2017). “Habit”, p.22, Read Books Ltd

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• People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

  Caleb Carr

  People, Causes, Deceived

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• We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

  Bhagat Singh

  Pain, Struggle, People

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Writing, Faces, Suspense

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.

  Al Jaffee

  Insecurity, Independence, Battle

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• My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the book. I want to get people's attention and tell them very valuable and ultimately hopeful information, and you find out nothing is as scary as your imagination.

  Amanda Ripley

  Book, People, Imagination

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Competition, Doe, Awareness

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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.

  Shirley Boone

  No Fear, Lord

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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.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Weight, Able, Intense

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• If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord

  Charles Stanley

  Lord, Lays, Ifs

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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.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Envy, Wish

  Alain de Botton (2001). “The Consolations of Philosophy”, p.202, Penguin UK

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