“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
Anxious feeling
Anxious Quotes — page 5 of 107
“Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.”
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
“My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.”
“I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?”
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
“What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.”
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
“If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.”
“People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.”
“Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.”
“Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.”
“What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.”
“The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.”
“The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.”
“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.”
“People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.”
“The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.”
“For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.”
“I've got a war in my mind”