"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."

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"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."

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"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create."

Crystal Woods, American Poet

Anxiety, Thought, Pain, Awareness, Emotion

"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

Anxiety, Stress, Energy, Resistance

"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"

Ron Baratono, American Poet

Anxiety, Worry, Perspective, Logic

"Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Anxiety, Childhood, Future, Reality

"I made so many promises when I arrived here.Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and nervous giggles that sit in my chest, build in my chest, threaten to burst through my chest, and the pressure is tightening and tightening and tighteningLife around here isn't what I expected it to be."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

Anxiety, Expectation, Fear, Uncertainty

"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."

John Updike, American Novelist

Anxiety, Guilt, Darkness, Subconscious

"I'm not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Anxiety, Fear, Truth, Power, Regret

"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

Anxiety, Guilt, Acceptance, Emotion

"In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

Anxiety, Death, Humanity, Fear

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"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

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"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

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"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

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"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."

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"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."

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"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."

"Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create."

"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."

"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"

"Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital."

"I'm not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well."

"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."

"In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity."

Explore more quotes by Alan Watts

"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."

"Saints need sinners."

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."

"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."