#anxiety

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#people #social-anxiety #socialism

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone. ↗

— Renee O'Connor

#anxiety #direct #everyone #film #having

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#anxiety #attacks #diagnosed #die #disorders

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom's. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live. ↗

— Susan Smith

#anxiety #around #coming #even #felt

There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home. ↗

— Joss Stone

#because #benefits #claim #england #free

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#anymore #i #know #like

I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#attacks #i #lot #suffer

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage #inspirational #love #courage

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste ↗

— James Fenimore Cooper

#hurry #art

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and be knowledgeable about the opera, have strong opinions about the relative rankings of Renaissance painters, an encyclopedic knowledge of the English civil war, of French wines--I feel an anxiety that nudges beyond the envious into the existential. How did she find the time? ↗

— Zadie Smith

#connoisseurs #envy #knowledge #self-esteem #art