Anxious Quotes - Page 22

• I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

  Lev Grossman

  Way, Tribes, East

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• Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Way, Right Way, Ultimate

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• The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

  D. A. Carson

  Way, Prayerful

  D. A. Carson (1996). “Basics for Believers: An Exposition of Philippians”, p.73, Baker Books

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• A skater goes through a lot of different feelings during a competition. Staying calm is the key point. You feel a little anxious, a little nervous, a little unsettled. That's when you've got to trust your feelings, trust your abilities. Believe in what you have worked for so long to achieve. Have faith in yourself.

  Elvis Stojko

  Believe, Keys, Long

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• From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve intact the stainless purity of the soul. Also in it, the old will again find repose, relief, and peace from their anxious cares. And to all those who suffer in any way, especially the dying, may it bring comfort and increase the hope of eternal happiness.

  Pope Pius XI

  Evil, Soul, Suffering

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• The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

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• If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Past Present Future, Anxiety Depression

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• A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Blessing, Race

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• I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

  Rafael Nadal

  Soccer, Morning, Tennis

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• Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

  Joyce Meyer

  Next Day, People, Ordinary

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• Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Feelings, Golden Girls, World

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• I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

  Claire Denis

  Coffee, Perfect Days, Cigarette

  Interview with Adam Nayman, reverseshot.org. June 26, 2009.

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• For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sadness, Bad Day, Closing Up

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• But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

  Brenda Ueland

  Peace, Artist, People

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• its like you said? i lead my people-" forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-" desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!" sorry. wrong script" zifnab said

  Margaret Weis

  Stars, Sorry, Fire

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• (About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely people who are happy should look happy, at all times, no matter how much money they have or how uncomfortable their shoes are or how little their child is sleeping; and people who are doing OK but have still not found their soul-mate should look, I don't know, anxious, like Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally; and people who are desperate should wear something, a yellow ribbon maybe, which would allow them to be identified by similar desperate people.

  Nick Hornby

  Children, Sleep, Things In Life

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• Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Paradise, Reason Why

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

  Garth Stein

  Soul, Care, Nervous

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

  Confucius

  Squares, Giving, Three

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• When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Men, Twists

  "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1999.

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• Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

  Edna O'Brien

  Running, Responsibility, World

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• His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

  Ann Brashares

  Children, Giving, Married

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.21, Penguin

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• Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.

  Tove Jansson

  Fear, Rain, Book

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• Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

  Donald Hall

  Character, Opposites

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• He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Long Ago, Patient, Easier

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