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• When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

  Robert Evans

  Attitude, Parenting, Inspire

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• Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

  Will Durst

  Happiness, Laughter, Fear

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• Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

  Willard Gaylin

  Worry, Imagination, Feelings

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• If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Worry, Decision

  "The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2004.

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• Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Hate, Eye

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.23, BookBaby

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• But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

  Raymond Carver

  Worry, Legs, Sparks

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.405, Vintage

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• Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Worry, Parts Of Life

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 18, 2014

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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.

  Dalai Lama

  Suffering, Comfort, Looks

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• Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

  Solomon

  Encouragement, Heart, Glad

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• I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Mind, Too Much, Easy

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• Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

  Howard Barker

  Character, Achievement, Theatre

  "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2012.

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• The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Worry, Mind

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• One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

  Alice Miller

  Pain, Recovery, Addiction

  Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

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• Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

  Rollo May

  People, Creative, Greek

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• A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

  William Arthur Ward

  Love, Inspirational, True Friend

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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  Hans Selye

  Inspirational, Stress, Physicians

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• Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

  Rajneesh

  Existence, Small Things

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• Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

  Alain de Botton

  Annoyed, Political, Levels

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• They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

  Robert Burton

  Dog, Business, Ambition

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Girl, Political, Disability

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• Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

  Saul Bellow

  Perspective, Suffering, Scales

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.85, Penguin

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• I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

  Tom Wilson

  Funny Life, Worry, Trying

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• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

  Tom Cochrane

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

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