"Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking."
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"It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life."
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"Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest."
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"Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety."
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"The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery."
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"We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes."
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"If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear."
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"President Obama , I guess, is starting to confess to some of his anxieties. In a recent interview, President Obama said, 'I miss being anonymous.' He said, 'In the old days, I could blend in with all the other Hawaiian Barack Hussein Obamas.'"
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"I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice."
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"The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself."
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"Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory."
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"I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety."
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"Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more."
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"Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety."
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"To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself."
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"For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger."
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"To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past."
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"American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism"
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"A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat."
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"Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."
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