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“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”

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Author:Rollo May

“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.”

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.”

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Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.”

Feelings Pain Suffering Simple Pure Essentials Anxiety Ingredients Anticipation Feeling Pain

Book:Autobiography of a Face

Source: Autobiography of a Face

“Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders provides clinicians with essential guidelines to treat patients in the era of managed care. Seven psychiatric disorders are described and conceptualized in cognitive-behavioral terms. The authors then provided an unusually clear, reader-friendly description of how to assess and treat each disorder with illustrative case examples, and patient forms and handouts. It should prove very useful for clinicians or clinicians-in-training who want to learn how to conduct short-term treatment through an empirically validated approach.”

“The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.”

Soul God Christian Doubt Sorrow Comfort Protect Essentials Anxiety Weapons Defense Word Of God Offense Consultation

Author:Wilfred Grenfell

“Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.”

Humans Worry Conditions Creation Essentials Anxiety Intellectual Artistic Finest Human History Artistic Creation

Book:THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN

Source: THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN

“Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.”

Plans Divine Essentials Anxiety Replaced Solemn

Author:Count of St. Germain

“It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.”

Should Hands Steps Essentials Anxiety Hatred Satisfaction Fluctuation Hatred And Love

Book:Selected Melanie Klein

Source: Selected Melanie Klein

“The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.”

Joy Desire Essentials Anxiety Spite Affirmation

Book:Writings on religion

Source: Writings on religion