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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.

  Max Stirner

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Doe

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.283, Cambridge University Press

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• After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.

  Bobby Bell

  Long, Tests, Pressure

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• But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Expression, Worry, Soul

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

  Honore de Balzac

  Way, Mark, Mischief

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• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

  Aristotle

  Character, Anxiety, Political

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Moving, Two, Worry

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• We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

  Mark Twain

  Musical, Fifteen, Talent

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Men, Quality, Get Better

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.413

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• We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Past, Men

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

  Epictetus

  Real, Men, Anxiety

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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  Hans Selye

  Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety

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• The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fear, Motivation

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• That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

  Philip Pullman

  Maturity, Anxiety, Young

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.786, Delphi Classics

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Worry, Anxiety, Ifs

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

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• I think writers are very anxious.

  Helen Garner

  Thinking

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• I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.

  Kim Hunter

  Writing, Doctors, Pills

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• I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Games, Pitching

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• I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me.

  Joe Lando

  Two, Waiting, Three

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• To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hard Work, Joy, Noble

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

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• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Real, Hair, Issues

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• It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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• Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

  Rose Kennedy

  Anxiety, Atmosphere, Comprehension

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• Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.

  Susan Forward

  Children, Parent, Risk

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