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I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the ...

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When you're betting for tiles in an archery contest, you shoot with skill. When you're betting for f...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that ...

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I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorge...

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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He ...

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The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves ...

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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuou...

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The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the const...

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Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be ...

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It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless ...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and ev...

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We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfacti...

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[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

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Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for ano...

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as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status an...

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In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be s...

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Alain de BottonThe News: A User's Manual

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flow...

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the ...

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And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem ...

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In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity...

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Alice JamesThe Diary of Alice James

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego want...

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Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishe...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Fixed mindset worries in the nest and the growth mindset dances on the edge.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress thro...

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Calling someone equally as anxious on the phone makes you feel less alone. Sometimes the best thing ...

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Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the ring...

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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to...

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For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them.

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Anaïs NinThe Diary of Anaïs Nin

There is a moment, if you trip or slip, before your hand shoots out to break your fall, when you fee...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mi...

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Quite collected at cocktail parties,meanwhile in my headI'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to ...

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Anton ChekhovThe Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New...

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There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me ...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeMama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so fa...

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Baruch SpinozaOn the Improvement of the Understanding

Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's pow...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally creat...

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Those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our h...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anx...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our h...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anx...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our h...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anx...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our h...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anx...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’...

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Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their...

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Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our h...

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Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it ...

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Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anx...

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Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’...

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Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their...

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Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our h...

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Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it ...

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Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anx...

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Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’...

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Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their...

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Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our h...

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Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it ...

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Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anx...

Show More

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’...

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Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their...

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Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our h...

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Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it ...

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Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?