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"One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves."
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Personal Development
"I had turned my anxiety into my profession."
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Personal Development
"If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool."
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Personal Development
"Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'.It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'."
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Personal Development
"All problems begin when we start worrying what others think of us."
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Personal Development
"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."
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Personal Development
"I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming."
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Personal Development
"The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction."
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Personal Development
"A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions."
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Personal Development
"When your inner critic undermines your confidence, inner conflict, anxiety, and agitation take over. It tells you that you are not good enough, smart enough, handsome enough, worthy enough, or basically just plain NOT enough. It takes a toll on your self-confidence, doesn't it?"
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"Me: 'All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel."
Expression
"There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore."
Recovery
"I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid."
Social
"I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin."
Trauma
"It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing."
Uncertainty
"It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either."
Existentialism
"Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural."
Creativity
"IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding."
Acceptance
"There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts."
Tradition
"The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose."
Philosophy
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