“Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.”
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Anxious Quotes — page 20 of 107
“If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.”
“Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.”
“Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad”
“If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.”
“Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.”
“I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.”
“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.”
“We don't have to feel negative about weeds. They're a part of life. We need to see them, acknowledge them, focus on the solution, and immediately do whatever it takes to eliminate their influence from our lives.”
“The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle.”
“A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary”
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.”
“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”
“I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.”
“The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.”
“Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.”
“Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.”
“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.”
“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
“How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.”