Anxious Quotes - Page 19

• Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

  Guy Finley

  Pain, Stress, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 11, 2010

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• Time flies when you are anxious!

  Maria Bamford

  Time, Time Flies

  "Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome". Live album, April 21, 2009.

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• It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.

  George F. Kennan

  Running, Country, People

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• The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

  Confucius

  Men, Poverty, Should

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.228

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• As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Goodbye, Farewell, Love Is

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• Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  People, Compromise, Sin

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.198

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• A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.191, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1970). “Summerhill: for & against”, Hart Pub. Co

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• That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone. to be reassured or perhaps I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world. Or it was neither of these - I was afraid I was dreaming.

  Daniel Quinn

  Dream, World, Saving

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.28, Bantam

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• That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Tyrants, Criminals

  "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994.

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• It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Atheism, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

  Seneca the Elder

  Want, True Happiness, Enjoy

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• Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Character, Men

  Letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven, July 12, 1801.

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• Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

  Ron Paul

  War, People, Liberty

  "Bush’s Wars". www.counterpunch.org. September 21, 2001.

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• Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.

  James A.C. Brown

  Tunnels, People, Worry

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• The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

  Edwin H Friedman

  Leadership, Self, Inspire

  Edwin H. Friedman (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.151, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Pain, Failure

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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• If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Moving, Bored, Enemy

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• I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Country, Differences, Racism

  "Excerpt: 'The Caged Virgin'", www.npr.org. May 4, 2006.

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• I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.

  Jim Crace

  Sex, Betrayal, Men

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• People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed do not sleep well, and chronic insomnia is strongly associated with mood disorders. These are clear correlations, but what is cause and what is effect is not clear. Most experts agree that sleep and mood are closely related, that healthy sleep can enhance emotional well-being, while insufficient quantity or quality of sleep can adversely affect it.

  Andrew Weil

  Fall, Sleep, Insomnia

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• You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

  Salvador Dali

  Girl, Creativity, Boys

  Dali interviewed by Victor Bockris, 1974.

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• Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Fear, War, Thinking

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• Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
  I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Heart, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Believe, Ambition, Giving

  "How to win friends & influence people". Book by Dale Carnegie, October 1936.

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