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"Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence."
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"Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her trachea."
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Personal Development
"Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does."
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"It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable."
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Personal Development
"Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep."
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Personal Development
"I think writers are very anxious."
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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
"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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Personal Development
"I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness."
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Personal Development
"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
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Personal Development
"Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be."
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"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."
Courage
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
Depression
"Humor is the healthy way of feeling 'distance' between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective."
Coping
"The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality."
Immortality
"Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter."
Creativity
"Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego - preserving strategies."
Perception
"Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce works that are not only significant to his or her age, but that will also speak to future generations."
Creativity
"When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship."
Context
"In this type of anxiety neurosis the anxious attitude is so intimately a part of the individual's method of evaluating stimuli, of orienting herself or himself to every experience, that he or she cannot separate him - or herself enough from anxiety to comprehend the goal of avoidance of, or freedom from, anxiety. What Nancy sought was to be able to step cautiously from rock to rock without falling; the idea or possibility of not being on a precipice at all did not occur to her."
Mind
"Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with threats is not objective but subjective - I.e., is due not to objective weakness but to inner psychological patterns and conflicts which prevent the individual from using his powers."
Psychology
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