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• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Fear, Half

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• Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

  Ben Jonson

  Care, Possession, Breasts

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• Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

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• Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Diary, Feb. 1947

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• The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, Worry, Panic

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose of Christmas”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fear, Doubt, Lenses

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Feelings, Want, Scared

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• When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hard Work, Doubt, Judgment

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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• Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

  Demosthenes

  Peace, War, Masters

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• I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

  Barry Levinson

  Two, Chance, Film

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

  Charles Frankel

  Worry, Intellectual, Essentials

  CHARLES FRANKEL (1956). “THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN”

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• If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

  Price Pritchett

  Entrepreneur, Scary, Risk

  Pritchett, Price (1990). “You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps”, Pritchett & Associates

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• He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optimistic, Optimism, Rich

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• I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Worry, Touched

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Two, Matter, Checks

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.259, Trinity University Press

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• Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Tense, Curtains

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  Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

  Jaden Smith

  Teenager, Kids, School

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

  John Lubbock

  People, Worry, Suffering

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Cancer, Joy

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

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• Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Despair, Giants

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• In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bird, Everyday, Earth

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• Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Doubt

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.70, BookBaby

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• It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

  David Foster Wallace

  Marketing, Advertising, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.284, Hachette UK

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• Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

  Jessica Stern

  People, Doe, Plot

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• When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lying, Indulge In, Use

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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