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"anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." »Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it." »Ovid
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"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety." »Plato
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"anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due." »Dean Inge
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"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master." »Demosthenes
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"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." »Aesop
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"It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"Our Age of anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools." »Marshall McLuhan
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"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease." »George Dennison Prentice
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"He who seeks wealth sacrifices his own pleasure, and, like him who carries burdens for others, bears the load of anxiety." »The Hitopadesa
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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
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"When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air." »Sir John Lubbock
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"anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." »Robert Albert Bloch
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"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born." »Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"
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"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles." »Paul Fussell
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"anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy." »Tyron Edwards
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"In this world, however little happiness may have been our portion, yet have we no desire to die. Whether he can speak of life as cheerful and delicate, or as full of pain, anxiety, and sorrow, never yet have I seen one who wished to die." »Firdausi
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"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath." »Amit Ray
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"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith." »Author Unknown
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"Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety." »Louis Kronenberger
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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top." »Robert Burton
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"The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility." »Giosu, Borsi
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"Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety." »Joe Moore
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"Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse." »Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V
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"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." »Brian Adams
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"Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves." »Sigmund Freud
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"Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis." »Abraham Myerson
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"One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments." »Dale Carnegie
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