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• The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!

  J. K. Rowling

  Fate, June, Practice

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• Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winning, Allies, Looks

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Morning, Bugs

  Franz Kafka (1946). “The Metamorphosis”, p.3, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every rapid current and helped me cross that water safely. I was happy that you were there. I came to tell you I was able to travel through my life because I could come to you when I was anxious, not when I was happy.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Water, Able, Rapids

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Jan 09, 2012

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• In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Future, Past

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

  Tana French

  Worry, Anxiety, Mazes

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• And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Stronger, Events, Strange

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.305, Macmillan

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• It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

  Timothy Keller

  Wise, Pride, Enough

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.134, Penguin

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• There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Believe, Ambition, Giving

  "How to win friends & influence people". Book by Dale Carnegie, October 1936.

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• Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

  Guy Finley

  Pain, Stress, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 11, 2010

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• People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, People, Events

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• Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Hate, Men

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Bolshevism: practice and theory”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I hate flying. I don't planes. I get really anxious.

  Lucy Hale

  Hate, Airplane, Flying

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• As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Discovery, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.14, M-y books ltd

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• Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself.

  Harriet Lerner

  Judging Yourself, Mind, Stressed

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Oct 26, 2014

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• The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

  Confucius

  Men, Poverty, Should

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.228

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• As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Goodbye, Farewell, Love Is

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• Whether you can see it or not - and often we cannot - everything is being used of God for your good as well as the good of othersThis knowledge is by faith. It is not always by sight. But it is nevertheless certain, because it is based on the character of God, who reveals himself to us as both sovereign and benevolentWe are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Character, Sight, Sovereign

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• We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

  James Montgomery Boice

  God, Religious, Future

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• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

  Samuel Rogers

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

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• That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Photography, Character, Men

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, transl. by T. Bailey Saunders , Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377, 1851.

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• The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.

  Confucius

  Life, Thinking, Gentleman

  "The Analects of Confucius".

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• I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

  Janet Yellen

  Children, Training, Care

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• We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

  Raymond Williams

  Thinking, Class, Middle

  "Culture and Society". Book by Raymond Williams, 1958.

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• Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.

  Axel Munthe

  Dog, Glasses, Hands

  Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

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