“I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 19 of 107
“Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.”
“our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.”
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
“The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.”
“I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.”
“I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.”
“Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.”
“It's been quite a while since I was really afraid that there was a boogeyman in my closet, although I am still very careful to keep my feet under the covers when I go to sleep, because the covers are magic, and if your feet are covered, it's like boogeyman Kryptonite.”
“Fear is the mind-killer.”
“You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.”
“There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.”
“The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.”
“Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have”
“If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.”
“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.”
“Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.”
“It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.”
“I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.”
“The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.”