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“Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.”

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Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.”

Ifs Boys Laughing Mystery Anxiety Laughter Importance

Book:A Place Called Saturday

Source: A Place Called Saturday

“You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know-and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.”

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Author:Richard Rohr

“I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.”

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Author:Charles M. Schulz

“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?”

World Mind Humans May Causes Fear Parent Sin Mystery Events Anxiety Blessed Misery Disappointment Human Life Poison Disappointed Restless Doubtful Being Blessed

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.”

Feels Knowing Mystery Anxiety Glad Mess Uncertainty Horizon Not Knowing Neurotic

Author:Leslie Jamison

“Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!”

Men Littles Poor Worry Mystery Creatures Anxiety Machines Nerves Neurosis

Book:The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in

Source: The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in