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“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.”

Ifs Faces Anxiety Acknowledge Existentialism Pettiness

Author:Martin Heidegger

“If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.”

Ifs Body Joy Powerful Drug Anxiety Cancer Your Body Tranquility Molecules Adrenaline Converting Exhilaration Valium

Author:Deepak Chopra

“If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.”

Ifs Reason Care Passion Anxiety Thoughtful

Author:Kristen Stewart

“If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.”

Ifs Needs Reading Anxiety Research Educated Abandon Anxiety And Fear

Author:Andrew Saul

“I always enjoyed the training more than I did the racing. There was a high level of anxiety in racing that I did not enjoy. Training runs set me FREE. I could imagine the race in my mind and race as if it were the actual race.”

Ifs Mind Running Enjoy Levels Race Imagine Anxiety Training Enjoyed Racing High Level

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Force My Own Conditions Anxiety Majors Including Contemporary Bewilderment Magical Thinking

Author:Mike Young

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams, hopes, desire and progress.”

“If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.”

Ifs Men World Way Long Helping Next Easy Knowledge Path This World Brother Anxiety Faults Islam Believer Gods Will Pursue Paradise Remove Resurrection Smooth God Help Destitute

Author:Elijah Muhammad

“There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.”

Ifs Lines Fine Anxiety Enthusiasm Excitement Fine Lines Nudge

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.”

“Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.”

Ifs Writing Process Anxiety Scared Inevitable Writing Process

Book:The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

Source: The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

“He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.”

Ifs Order Dies Opinion Depends Honor Anxiety Strive Reputation Schemes Inconsistent

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“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.”

Ifs Stills Sometimes Seems Moral Study Progress Dangerous Development Anxiety Historical Endure Vanity Humankind Abyss Liberated Misconception Immorality

Book:Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism

Source: Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism

“Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.”

Ifs Wells May Courses Sides Hours Lines Results Moral Youth Drink Authority Anxiety Finals Busy Saint Practicals Permanent Experts Spheres Drunkards

Book:Habit

Source: Habit

“If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord”

Ifs Lord Anxiety Lays

Author:Charles Stanley

“We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind Believe Facts Grows Causes Emotion Worry Flower Anxiety Garden Encouragement Plant Determined Unhappy Weed Constructive Default

Author:Brian Tracy

“If we take into account that women have had the right to vote only for some 100 years - in some countries even less - and that we have already won seats in governments or presidential offices, I understand that men look at this rise with some anxiety.”

Ifs Men Years Looks Country Government Office Anxiety Vote Accounts Presidential Seats Right To Vote Already Won

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Soul Character Able Actors Found Comfort Anxiety Portraying Stuttering Playing Someone Anxiety Attacks

Author:Pam Grier

“If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compassion is associated with significantly less anxiety and depression, as well as more happiness, optimism, and positive emotions.”

Ifs Wells Self Emotion Compassion Self Esteem Higher Anxiety Optimism Critical Esteem Compassionate Higher Self Self Compassion High Self Esteem Positive Emotions

Author:David D. Burns

“If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.”

Ifs Feelings Growing Anxiety Comfortable

Author:Mardy Grothe

“If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start with politics and I wouldn't say too much about terrorism. I'd suggest as a first step, that you invite the neighbours over for a drink this weekend. Today a drink, tomorrow a barbeque, pretty soon, a community.”

Ifs Firsts Today Community Levels Steps Too Much Tomorrow Drink Anxiety Terrorism Contemporary Insecurity Invites Weekend First Steps Neighbour Australian

Author:Hugh Mackay

“As you focus on calming your breathing, your anxiety will quickly reduce and you will start to think clearly again. This is especially important if you feel a panic attack coming on.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Important Focus Anxiety Breathing Panic Calming Panic Attacks

Book:Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

Source: Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness

“We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that's a powerful message.”

People Ifs Shows Powerful Dying Drug Anxiety Messages Scared Facing Death

Author:Rick Doblin

“If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.”

Ifs Want Self Desire Realizing Nice Fool Circumstances Anxiety Comfortable Rivers Crosses Caught Woods Where You Are Yogi Crocodiles Nice Life

Book:The Powers of The Mind

Source: The Powers of The Mind

“When you squeeze an orange, you'll always get orange juice to come out. What comes out is what's inside. The same logic applies to you: when someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, or says something unflattering or critical, and out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, or anxiety, that is what's inside. If love and joy are what you want to give and receive, change your life by changing what's inside”

“If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!”

Ifs Knows Would Be Anxiety Sight Glorious Covered Grain Doomed Harvest Wheat Paralyzed Inactivity

Author:Fred Rogers

“I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.”

Ifs Helping Energy Levels Amount Drug Anxiety Work Out Borders Help Me Furniture Collies High Anxiety

Author:Jake Abel

“Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and not violence, love and not hate, cooperation and not murder, justice and not selfishness, we have to learn how to make childhood more happy. No nobler task could be pursued by our generation.”

Ifs World Want Years Hate Justice Violence Generations Childhood Anxiety Tasks Murder Selfishness Cooperation Hostility Pursued Nursery Our Generation Competitiveness

Author:Joshua L. Liebman

“One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.”

“1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day's rest. 5. Get a smart seasickness if you can. 6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy. This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.”

Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782

“To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.”

Ifs Writing Trying Character Teach Discipline Anxiety Negative Uncertainty Something New Anxious Capability Simplify Matisse

Book:Conversations with Bernard Malamud

Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud

“Hell is hot, fire. But I tell you, you are providing your own coal. This is how things are: If you move against nature you will be in misery. Misery means moving against nature, and misery is a good indication - if you understand. It shows that somewhere you are going wrong, that's all. Put things right! Misery is a help. Anguish, anxiety, tension, are indications that somewhere something is going wrong. You are not with the total. Somewhere you have started your own private movement - and then you will be in misery.”

Ifs Mean Helping Shows Moving Hell Fire Movement Anxiety Hot Misery Tension Providing Coal Anguish Indication

Author:Rajneesh

“There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Made Ends Problem Results Involved Anxiety Unique Shame Awful Positive Results Dealing With Problems

Author:Jenny Lawson

“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.”

“You take somebody - one person has definitely got autism, you got another person that maybe has some of those traits and maybe there's some anxiety, depression, some epilepsy or something in the family history. Put them together, you're more likely to have a severely autistic kid than if you don't have any neurological problems in the family history.”

Ifs Persons Problem Kids Together Anxiety Traits Autism Autistic Family History Epilepsy Anxiety Depression

Author:Temple Grandin

“If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world so that analyzing it can help open up basically thoughts about what you need to do during the day. So a lot of people who subscribe to the psychoanalysis, the Jungian thought will really focus a lot on dreams, the meaning, and how it can be used to help you during the day.”

People Ifs World Needs Helping Dream Used Focus Anxiety Manifest Psychoanalysis Analyzing Nocturnal

Author:Shelby Harris

“Now there's some night terrors that happen in adults. And if it starts as an adult and you've never had them before, then there might be other things that are happening; it might be anxiety, depression, stress. And that's when you might have more of a thorough psychological evaluation.”

Ifs Might Happens Night Anxiety Happenings Adults Stress Terror Psychological Thorough Evaluation Night Terrors Anxiety Depression

Author:Shelby Harris

“The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.”

Ifs Art Moments Air Anxiety Consequence Filled Attraction Pursuit Calmness

Author:Dean Potter

“Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in terms of storytelling. That being said, on the day, basically what you're trying to get yourself into an open place. And if the character is in a state of anxiety or vulnerability, you try to find some touchstone.”

Ifs Knows Trying Said Important States Character Term Scene Anxiety Accomplish Storytelling Vulnerability Catching Pitching Touchstones

Author:Susan Sarandon

“The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.”

Ifs Looks Problem Worry Anxiety Solutions Angry Anxious Propensity Anxiety Depression

Author:Moby

“They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But if you get rid of that negativity, which goes away naturally when you transcend every day, these ideas are more freely flowing, and you get happy in the doing. You get fresh and inspiring ideas, and a bigger picture starts to emerge of the world and life. It's very good for the artist, businessman, fisherman, and any kind of person really.”

Ifs World Kind Persons Ideas Artist Sorrow Anxiety Negative Flow Bigger Stress Very Good Tension Negativity Businessman Tubes Doing You Fisherman Bigger Picture World And Life

Author:David Lynch

“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”

Ifs Feels Today Certain Morning Trouble Paper Anxiety Void Every Morning Catastrophe Sigh

Author:Lord Acton

“The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.”

Ifs Said Problem Causes Trump Anxiety Nervousness

Author:Mark Shields

“You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.”

People Ifs Feels Culture Social Causes Media Internet Anxiety Social Media Immigration Familiar Social Anxiety

Author:Barack Obama

“I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.”

Ifs Two Three Voice Hours Months One Day Anxiety Provoking Garage Three Months

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how to handle the fear, then you have enough insight in order to solve the problem. The problem is to not allow that anxiety to take over.”

Ifs Knows Enough Problem Pain Order Emotion Know How Anxiety Embrace Insight Solve Handle Relief

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it.”

Ifs Knows Way Care Suffering Practice Baby Anxiety Mindfulness Roots Embrace Take Care Relief

Author:Nhat Hanh

“When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to figure out if this is your thing or not. You feel like, "if I don't write a good story, I gotta get going to law school!"”

Ifs Feels Writing Trying Stories School Law Young Too Much Pieces Figures Anxiety Good Story Law School Embarking

Author:George Saunders

“One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going to, we can just relax and do it. Unfortunately, in my experience, that's not the way it works. The story doesn't want to be told what to do. You have to enter into this process with a high level of trust that the many hours of choosing that you're doing every day will gradually clarify the narrative for you. And that's what happens.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Stories Happens Process Hours Levels Anxiety Planning Narrative Relax High Level

Author:George Saunders

“If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.”

Ifs World Want This World Source Anxiety Depth Deeper Surface Calmness

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

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