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“Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.”

Giving Said Done Whole Dream Bigs Half Week Stupid Amount Anxiety Give Me Presses Stupid Things

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”

“The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.”

World Happens Half Poverty Greater Anxiety Other Half Exaggerated

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.”

Thinking Hours Half Audience Too Much Anxiety Notion Pretentious

Author:Jean Dujardin

“HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.”

People World Law Black Half Worst Emotional Anxiety Crisis Canada Immigrants Manipulation Trends Exploitation Hiv

Author:Sarah Schulman

“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.”

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.”

Inspirational Literature Fear Half Anxiety Anticipation Other Half

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.”

Reality Seems Past Natural Half Vision Fantasy Imagine Anxiety Stress Response Eras Retreat Unlikely Unstable Recourse Stress And Anxiety

Author:Alan Moore

“Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.”

Feels Firsts Humans Dream Spirit Night Names Half Heard Sweet Periods Anxiety Delight Evening Dawn Shiver Icy Human Love Sweet Dreams

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.”

“Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.”

Half Trouble Anxiety Torture Shrinks Calamity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.”

People Inspirational Evil Half Truth Is Anxiety Excess Wrath Moderates Presenting Other Half Half Truth Announcing

Author:Khalil Gibran

“One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that at one time half of all the beds in our hospitals were reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who had collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives — if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”; or the words of Sir William Osler: "Live in day-tight compartments."”

“That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we 'know' to be present that causes us anxiety.”

Knows Feelings Causes Difficult Half Danger Anxiety Accepted Uncomfortable Defenseless Half Truth

Author:Robert Kegan

“The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.”

Half Anxiety Drowning Neurotic Social Anxiety

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.”

Dream Seems Half Anxiety Airports

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold