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“I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.”

Found Causes Stuff Growth My Own Creative Anxiety Uncomfortable Maps I Have Learned Road Maps

Author:Merrill Markoe

“I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.”

People Heart War Sometimes Universe My Own Air Conflict Letting Go Anxiety Civil War Floating Heartbeat Artwork

Author:Ali Banisadr

“God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.”

“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

“When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.”

States Able My Own Figures Battle Anxiety Independence Constant Financial Obligation Insecurity Cartoonist

Author:Al Jaffee

“I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.”

People Thinking World Long Has Beens Kids School Social Felt My Own Gone This World Amount Skills Anxiety Long Time Enormous Wealthy Polished Preps Social Skills

Author:Dan Chaon

“I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!”

Wells My Own Anxiety Academic Academic Life

Author:Theodora Goss

“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”

My Own Taken Clear Paper Anxiety Conscience Prison Faults Pens Forbidden Doing Nothing

Book:Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Source: Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

“I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.”

People Want Giving Bigs Might Order My Own Space Brain Anxiety Psychological Recognition Vulnerability Companion Mature Crowded Aversion

Book:The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Running Pain My Own Secret Anxiety Flow Stress Patience Want Me Furnaces Without Pain Stress And Anxiety

Book:Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses

Source: Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses

“I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.”

“When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.”

Mind Believe Asks I Believe My Own Stupid Anxiety Calm Cancer Treatment Breast Cancer Cancer Treatment Stupid Questions

Author:Maura Tierney

“I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.”

Life Kind Philosophy Dream Desire Next My Own Sweet Gay Anxiety Folks Indifference Instant Melancholy Absent Numbness Sleeplessness Absent Mindedness

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“I'm wise to be a good steward, but I'll never be my own rescuer. The worth thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them”

Strong Can Do My Own Wise Anxiety Best Things Stewards

Book:Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change

Source: Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change

“Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.”

My Own Worry Anxiety Patient Paradox Physicians Juniors Demographics

Book:Phoning Home: Essays

Source: Phoning Home: Essays

“When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.”

Thinking Book Seems Happens Given Parent My Own Wise Heard Wise Words Anxiety Scales Preparation Grandparent My Own Life Parents And Grandparents

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra

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