Anxiety Quotes - Page 37

• If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Shoes, Optimism, Danger

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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• Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Elegance, Skepticism

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.19, Arcade Publishing

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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.

  Stephen Baxter

  Giving, Laughing, Realizing

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• If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

  Mardy Grothe

  Feelings, Growing, Ifs

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• Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future
  And focus intelligently on the present.
  This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Regret, Past, Focus

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• I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.

  Simon Critchley

  Boredom, Phrases, Pascal

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• If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start with politics and I wouldn't say too much about terrorism. I'd suggest as a first step, that you invite the neighbours over for a drink this weekend. Today a drink, tomorrow a barbeque, pretty soon, a community.

  Hugh Mackay

  Weekend, Community, Insecurity

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• All publicity works upon anxiety.

  John Berger

  Publicity

  John Berger (2008). “Ways of Seeing”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of us because we could back each other up. As a creator, a director and a filmmaker, you often get assaulted and you lose perspective because you have all of this pressure. It was so nice to call him and say, "What do you think?"

  Tony Goldwyn

  Nice, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Tanc Sade

  Free Diving, Black, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Hate, Ocean, Australia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears. People may fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination or acceptance of mediocrity.

  Joe Tye

  Self Esteem, Procrastination, Acceptance

  Joe Tye (2000). “Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career”, Mjf Books

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Body, Being A Woman, Feminine

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Allow love to fill the places where anxiety now resides.

  Ralph Marston

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• Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Bipolar, Resilience, Suffering

  "Kay Redfield Jamison - A deep love and loss". "All In The Mind" with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. January 15, 2011.

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• One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

  Tom Stoppard

  Disappointment, Eye, Relief

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• Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Red Flags, Creating, Inquiry

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• Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

  Emil Brunner

  Negative, Way, Made

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• Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer.

  Liz Miller

  Cancer, Heart, Blood

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Almost all negative moods are missing one key element - calm. By learning calm, you learn to deal with difficult areas. Calm allows us to achieve what we want, without being overwhelmed by anxiety.

  Liz Miller

  Keys, Missing, Negative

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor.

  Liz Miller

  Causes, Factors, Uncertainty

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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• As you focus on calming your breathing, your anxiety will quickly reduce and you will start to think clearly again. This is especially important if you feel a panic attack coming on.

  Liz Miller

  Thinking, Breathing, Focus

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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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.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress, Voice, Guides

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2014). “Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leisure, Praying, Prosperity

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• For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

  Marcel Tabuteau

  Years, Play, Bored

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