Quotes by Anxiety The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety. Eric Sevareid anxiety steel america To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity. Eric Maisel anxiety wall creativity An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water. Eric Maisel anxiety artist water I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show. Erica Durance anxiety scare character The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Erich Fromm nonviolent-communication anxiety source No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude. Epictetus anxiety states sorrow If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion. Epictetus happy-birthday anxiety loss The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive. Ernest Becker anxiety inspirational-life men I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again. Erica Jong anxiety next morning There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. Erich Fromm meaning-of-life anxiety worry A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole. Eric Hoffer abuse anxiety self In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat. Eric Hoffer anxiety running fall We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt. Esther Perel anxiety guilt religious We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know, we have to protect people who are in tremendous danger. And we also have to not get burned out and let our fear and anxiety and depression sink us. So there's lots of things we have to do right now! Eve Ensler anxiety circles people The news is challenging right now. One hard thing about it is that often things don't lend themselves to good explanations or we don't have enough information. So we are sometimes in pretty murky waters, as everyone is. But it's an era where people's anxiety about what's going on and need to understand what's happening around them has created a real demand for news coverage that's dedicated to filling that need. Ezra Klein anxiety real water If I can't do that at age 33, I'll probably never be able to do it. As you enter your thirties, things get a little more squiggly, with life spreading out in different directions. All of that makes me think that now's the time to do what you really want to do and not have that same type of youthful anxiety about every step. Ezra Koenig anxiety age thinking Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. F. H. Bradley anxiety be-good worst That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched. Evangeline Lilly anxiety source film I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way. Fiona Gubelmann anxiety judging people His desire to bless you goes infinitely beyond your own personal desire to secure His blessing. There is always peace in His presence. Do not disturb this by anxiety to know what is in store for tomorrow. Out of the very tranquility of worship will be born the guidance you need. Frances J Roberts anxiety blessing desire «1213141516171819202122»