Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
Brian HerbertSo close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
Edith WhartonTag: change anxiety sanctification dissonance
[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world.
Alain de BottonTag: humor life art vanity understanding criticism novels films desire plays paintings poems gravity anxiety self-understanding
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 BottonTag: happiness self-knowledge achievements materialism desire possessions status anxiety
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 BottonTag: life goals desire anxiety respite hopes
Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.
Paulo CoelhoTag: anxiety
We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.
Oswald ChambersMary Lou suddenly realizes that Mack calls the temperature number because he is afraid to talk on the telephone, and by listening to a recording, he doesn’t have to reply. It’s his way of pretending that he’s involved. He wants it to snow so he won’t have to go outside. He is afraid of what might happen. But it occurs to her that what he must really be afraid of is women. Then Mary Lou feels so sick and heavy with her power over him that she wants to cry. She sees the way her husband is standing there in a frozen pose. Mack looks as though he could stand there all night with the telephone receiver against his ear.
Bobbie Ann MasonTag: girls depression anxiety
A coward talks to everyone but YOU.
Shannon L. AlderTag: fear jealousy weak games slander liars competition sisters anxiety coward rumors heartless insecure-women low-self-esteem stalkers jealous-women fake-christians evil-women defaming cheats false-information gossips paranoid-men sisterinlaws
Your path might be a lonely one... but, you are NOT alone!
Martin R. LemieuxTag: happiness pain joy alone depression anxiety
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