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• When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

  Amy Clampitt

  Should Have, Long, Mad

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• Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.

  Martha Manning

  Land, Floating, Stalking

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• What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sorrow, Doe, Overcoming Anxiety

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• The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

  Sigmund Freud

  Firsts, Birth, Source

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1959). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

  Pauline Kael

  Mistake, Judgement, Too Much

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

  David Antin

  Memories, Greek, Helping

  "A Conversation with David Antin". Book by David Antin, Charles Bernstein, 2002.

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• We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Inspiring, Letting Go

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony

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• Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

  Andre Maurois

  Bird, Doe, Bars

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• Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Doubt, Suffering

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

  Tryon Edwards

  Disappointment, Fear, Blessed

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.86, Ravenio Books

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• People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moving On, Depression, Letting Go

  Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.125, Souvenir Press

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• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

  Aesop

  Peace, Stress, Food

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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• Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Literature

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• ...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Failing, Fear Of Death, Greater

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

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• When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Workout, Fun, Powerful

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revis”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

  Joseph Addison

  Evil, Pressure, Painful

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.265

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• Your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and at the end everybody is aware deep down there is death.

  Rajneesh

  Competition, Desire, Infinite

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• Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Night, Years, Two

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• The only way out is through.

  Robert Frost

  Christian Inspirational, Way, Tattooed

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• When shall we live if not now?

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Worry, Ifs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

  Michael Josephson

  Despair, Way, Action

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• Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Real, Progress

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 02, 2015

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• The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

  Robert Breault

  Shy, Attention, Fancy

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• One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

  Rollo May

  Blessing, Age

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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