#anxiety

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anxiety #apprehension #endless #forever #may

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#calm #day #everything #excitement #feel

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#desire #goals #hopes #life #respite

Carry the confidence. ↗

— Diane Chamberlain

#confidence #therapy #life

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#enjoyment #gloom #life #life

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#editing #editing-humor #editors #joy #neurosis

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again. ↗

— Susan Vaught

#avoiding #fear #life #life

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#humorous #travel #humor

Anxiety is the cry for oneself to regain inner peace ↗

— Bridget Jane Cassidy

#hope #inner-peace #love #peace #love

I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendships #social-anxiety #change