"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain."
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"The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it"
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"A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety."
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"I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head."
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"Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety."
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"The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries."
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"One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be"
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"A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety."
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"The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced."
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"There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force."
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"I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life."
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"He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety."
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"You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet."
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"You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
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"Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all. It is precisely Nothingness that makes itself present and felt as the object of our dread."
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"our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create."
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"The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now."
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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."
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"Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present."
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