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our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.
I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
A connection to Spirit restores your confidence, relieves your anxiety, and frees you from the desire to control everything in your life.
Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.
Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.
Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.
The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.
When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.
Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493
No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?
When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.
Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.
Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.
When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.
If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.
Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.
The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.
Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
...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.
If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.
When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.
What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.
Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.
Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is
The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.
Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.
To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.
If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.
When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.
The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.