Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
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Anxiety
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Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry."
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."
Wayne Dyer
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen."
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"Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go."
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"In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God."
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"Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other."
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"Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me."
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"Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions."
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"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more."
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"Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity."
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"All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace."
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"The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free."
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"Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
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"We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble."
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"The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation."
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"Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles."
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
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"under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being."
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"You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans."
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"The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more."
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"I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time."
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"I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse."
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"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
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