Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal.
Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.
All our anxieties relate to time.
[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.
When you're appealing to people's fears and anxieties, you can make some gains.
I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.
Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.
Solitude is the mother of anxieties.
Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of
A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.
Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.
Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.
Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.
The person who really needs the psychotherapy (. . . ) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist's office by his mother, but the mother, to releive her anxieties about his homosexuality.
When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.
