#anxiety

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#change #dissonance #sanctification #age

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #desire #happiness #materialism #possessions

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#art #creativity #freedom #love #peace

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. ↗

— Amit Ray

#meditation #mindfulness #peace #relaxation #tension

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#happiness #anxiety

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#status #nature

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured. ↗

— Rick Warren

#prayer #worry #worship #purpose

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry. ↗

— Max Lucado

#humor #story #worry #humor

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#regret #anxiety

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#peace-of-mind #anxiety