“Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.” PeopleWorldKnownCarCollegeAnxietyWindowUniversityNative AmericanAutomobilePromptsAffiliationColleges And UniversitiesRear Window Book:Class Source: Class
“I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.” FeelsStillsEyeEmotionKnownMinutesComfortAnxietyAffairThank GodFearfulFifteenThronesOvertaking Author:John Wesley
“I think the typical way is that usually Holocaust survivors are known to be very quiet and full of anxiety, many of them don't like life, don't trust people. But my parents were children during the Holocaust. And my father was very optimistic.” PeopleThinkingWayChildrenFatherParentKnownQuietAnxietyOptimisticSurvivorHolocaustTypicalDon't TrustHolocaust SurvivorDon't Trust People Author:Etgar Keret
“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.” NeedsTwoSelfDesireTurnsKnownPossibilityAnxietyOneselfDeeperWillingnessOrientation Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
“INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan’s high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as “social anxiety disorder,” a chronic and disabling form of shyness.” KidsFormSufferingSocialParentChallengesKnownConditionsEventsDegreesAnxietyAbuseVulnerableTensionDisorderQuartersPeersIntrovertShynessSocial AnxietyAnxiety Disorder Author:Susan Cain
“Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.” IfsKnowsMenImportantKnownAdventureAnxietyImportant ThingsEvery ManSinkingAffrontPerdition Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.” FeelsHeartHas BeensMadeEndsJoyMemoriesKnownCreaturesAnxietyCloudsLiftsHungLiving CreaturesAnxiety And Fear Book:Watership Down Source: Watership Down
“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.” IfsMenWayGivingMeanLongDoeMightJoyHateStrongWishGriefEmotionKnownStudyAnxietySevenPatientInclinationAdorationManlyDescendantsStrong ManRestraining Author:Ieyasu Tokugawa
“In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]” WellsPersonsCountryAsksWaitingHoursAnswersGriefKnownLonelinessStudentsSonGrewTerribleQuietHusbandDespairAnxietyLonelyCalmExtrasFuelMy HusbandColleaguesGreat FriendCalmer Author:Dani Shapiro
“It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.” HumansFactsAmericaNationsCommonKnownMediaDrugAnxietyRemainsDollarsCancerCornersStoresSubstanceLinksDisturbingAstonishingHintsScrutinyHysteriaIgnite Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee