Anxiety Quotes - Page 9

Our reactions to events is directly promotional to their importance in our life.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.

I have always felt that fear possesses such great power, enough to paralyze and quake an individual. Pondering this, I realized that the source of fear's power comes from within me. So, I ask myself, does that not make me the powerful one?

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus

Life is like a sandwich!

Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you put in-between
the slices is up to you.

Is your sandwich tasty or sour?
Allan Rufus.org

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,...

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n'est rien qu'un peu de passé en retard.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.