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“He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.”

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“Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?”

“Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.”

Turns Attention Worry Blessing Anxiety Many Blessings

Author:Ralph Marston

“My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the book. I want to get people's attention and tell them very valuable and ultimately hopeful information, and you find out nothing is as scary as your imagination.”

People Knows Want Book Stuff Imagination Attention Information Anxiety Scary Valuable Disaster Hopeful

Author:Amanda Ripley

“For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.”

Source: About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times

“My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.”

Way Remember Mother Attention Drug Anxiety Suicide Reactions Release

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.”

Ideas Care Life Is Simple Levels Attention Stage Anxiety Access Routine Contrast Getting Old Facility High Level Getting High Mobility Stages Of Life

Book:Faith in the Public Square

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.”

Feelings Might Interest Pay Attention Compassion Policy Objects Anxiety Guilty Pay Attention Make Sense Feeling Guilty

Book:Nature Heals

Source: Nature Heals

“Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.”

People Firsts Attention Situation Vision Worry Fields Anxiety Determined Anxious Tunnels Tunnel Vision

Author:James A.C. Brown

“The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.”

Bigs Prayer Attention Praying Anxiety Handle Antidote

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

“We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.”

Light Night Attention Worry Forever Focus Waste Anxiety Concern Burden Evening Flash

Author:Anthony de Mello

“Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.”

Way Seems Attention Focus Anxiety Overcoming Overcoming Anxiety

Author:Tommy Franks

“If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Made Self Shows Happens Attention Roles Successful Fashion Integrity Anxiety Concern Assuming Oneself Caught Things Happen Mask Usual Fearful Bent Pretence

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Learn to pay attention to your body with the relaxed attitude of gratitude, trust, curiosity and unconditional love rather than being pushed around by habit, fear, anxiety, social customs, other people's schedules and other people's ideas about what is good for you.”

“Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.”

“One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.”

Way Trying Self Attention Focus Anxiety Overcoming

Author:Dalai Lama

“Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.”

Ifs States Attention Brain Environment Trouble Anxiety Conscious Function Perpetual Making Changes Define Yourself Shooter Trouble Making

Author:Alan Watts

“One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be”

Way Needs Should Trying May Self Matter Problem Remember Attention Focus Succeed Anxiety Overcoming Scales Diminish

Book:The Essence Of Wisdom

Source: The Essence Of Wisdom

“The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.”

Common Attention Anxiety Fancy Shy Social Anxiety Center Of Attention

Author:Robert Breault

“Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don't bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you want to ensure their safety in your life. The bird knows where it belongs, and will never fly to a wrong nest.”