“The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.” FeelsWritingTryingMaterialsAnxietyHardestUncomfortableHardest ThingExplainingAnxiety Attacks Author:Jenny Lawson
“A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness.” MeanChildrenDoeWholeUseFallParentEnjoyShareBrotherMaterialsAnxietyGreedIllAffectionIllnessBrothers And SistersParents LoveEnticing Book:Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria Source: Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.” ThinkingWritingI CanHardDonePastLife IsThreeBitsCan DoGoneFiveMaterialsAnxietyJokesPressureCome UpRelaxScreenplaysI Can Do ItParalyzed Author:Steve Martin
“...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.” PeopleTodayAmericaPovertyMaterialsAnxietySentencesGoodsUnhappinessDiscomfortAmerica TodayDeath SentencePoverty In America Author:Bernie Sanders
“Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.” PeopleKindSometimesSufferingWealthCasesRichDoubtMaterialsAmountAnxietyBiggerDifficultyEncountersWealthyMaterial WealthDoubt And Fear Author:Dalai Lama
“So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingIdeasDoneRolesDyingMaterialsAnxietyFunctionCalmSpreadUnconsciousPsychedelicInappropriateDeluded Author:Terence McKenna
“I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.” ThinkingCultureTaughtMaterialsAnxietyFilledGuiltEmbarrassingJewish Culture Author:Robert Mankoff
“In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and technology, many Americans are living under deprivation and anxiety. So happiness is not in accumulation of material goods, it's in sharing and caring.” FeelsWealthNumbersTechnologyMaterialsIndustryCitizensAnxietyWeaponsCaringNuclearSpiteGoodsNuclear WeaponsInsecureAccumulationLarge NumbersAmerican CitizensDeprivationSharing And Caring Author:Satish Kumar
“Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.” ThinkingMayHandsLastsUsedMaterialsPromiseAnxietyToolsReachingRealismLast Words Author:Roy Kesey
“The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.” Life IsStruggleEconomicMaterialsComfortAnxietyProtection Author:Michelangelo Antonioni