#anxiety

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ↗

— Plato

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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#anxiety #balanced #fear #happens #happy

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. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman

Now is the age of anxiety. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anxiety #now

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band. ↗

— Jack Irons

#anxiety #band #battles #began #beginnings

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#change #demagoguery #emotions #envy #exploiting

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beyond #certainly #children #comprehension #emotional

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack. ↗

— Carly Simon

#attack #being #brought #fear #got

Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#christian #god #life-quotes #prayer #pushing-buttons