"The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety."
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"When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation."
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"Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety."
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"Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety."
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"Anxiety beclouds the future."
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"Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas."
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"The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry."
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"Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety."
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"Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits."
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"Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river."
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"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death."
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"Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it."
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"Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else."
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"Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety."
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"There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood."
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"Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself."
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"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often."
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"I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells."
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"My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry."
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"I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch."
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