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“A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.”

Loss Levels Judging Anxiety Majors Capacity Criteria

Book:A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

Source: A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

“The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.”

“The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.”

Joy Responsibility Anxiety Capacity Latin True Meaning

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.”

Persons Challenges Anxiety Capacity Positivity Boundaries Enjoyment Boredom Balanced

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.”

Moving Levels Courage Achieve Anxiety Capacity Arise Realms Willingness Dependence Integration Parental Differentiate

Book:Man's Search for Himself

Source: Man's Search for Himself

“In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.”

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.”

Thinking Giving Feels Reality Happiness Enjoy Perfect Risk Sadness Needed Anxiety Capacity Satisfaction Fortunate Perfect Happiness

Author:William James

“When we consciously choose a core heart feeling over a negative feeling, we effectively intercept the physiological stress response that drains and damages our systems and allow the body's natural regenerative capacities to work for us. Instead of being taxed and depleted, our mental and emotional systems are renewed. As a consequence, they are better able to ward off future "energy eaters" like stress, anxiety and anger before they take hold.”

Heart Feelings Body Able Energy Natural Emotional Anxiety Consequence Capacity Negative Stress Anger Management Response Core Damage Drains Anger Management Physiological Negative Feelings

Author:Howard Martin

“There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.”

Men Use Opportunity Successful He Man Discipline Anxiety Capacity Merit Anxious Can Not Road To Success

Author:William Bourke Cockran