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"You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties."
"People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on."
"The only way out is through."
"Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic."
"You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith."
"He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly."
"You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple."
"In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again."
"Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety"
"Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective."
"A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer."
"To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf."
"Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria."
"Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness."
"For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense fear, more intense than I had ever experienced before. Life seemed meaningless, barren, hostile. It became so unbearable that suddenly the thought came into my mind, I cannot live with myself any longer."
"Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms."
"Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love."
"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read."
"Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself."
"It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care."
