“People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate! The body is treated in a very harsh fashion. Courageous men are seen by everyone under Heaven as worthy, but this doesn't preserve them from death. I am not sure I know whether this is sensible or not.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenLongEndsBodyHeavenFateDyingFashionTerribleAnxietyConcernWorthyTreatedPreservesNot SureCourageousSensibleWornHarshWorn OutSenilityCourageous Man Author:Zhuangzi
“But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren't met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death - neurosis and psychosis.” IfsMenNeedsWellsImportantBitsSimpleProduceEmotionalMetsDegreesAnxietyHungerUncomfortableIsolationFrustrationShelterThirstRequirementsNeurosisPsychosisEmotional Needs Book:Love Source: Love
“There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.” MenUseOpportunitySuccessfulHe ManDisciplineAnxietyCapacityMeritAnxiousCan NotRoad To Success Author:William Bourke Cockran
“No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.” KnowsMenDoeKnow HowHe ManJudgingTerribleAnxietyLaysCaughtInstantTortureSuspectsTrapsAccusedSpyReadiness Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.” MenIndividualNationsWorryTakenDrinkAnxietyFinancialDebtDrivenEnterprise Author:Stephen L. Richards
“Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.” KnowsMenWellsPainJoyNightPleasureGriefMistakeBrainTearsInspireHealthOughtHabitSorrowAnxietyLaughterMadContraryAriseDreadAbsentSleeplessnessDeliriousAbsent Mindedness Book:Hippocrates Source: Hippocrates
“My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.” IfsThinkingMenShouldHumansMayReasonPlayBusinessAudienceVirtueMankindSeriousMembersAnxietyFunctionTheaterRegardRevelationsConceptionPreoccupationSerious Business Author:Arthur Miller