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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.
In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.
When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.
From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.
There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
Every heart has an atmosphere. What is the atmosphere of your heart? Nothing good develops in an atmosphere of anxiety
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.
You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.
Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.
Let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness, where every failing will be canceled and anxiety turned into love.
An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.
As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.
There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.
Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.
Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.
Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
The thing is that I had no fear; no anxiety. I had this peace come over me and I just knew that word from the Lord was truth.
I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.
Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.
First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.
Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love