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“The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses--especially the grander ones--have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies.”

“I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.”

Men Feels Death Dies One Day Anxiety Boxes Decades Compassionate Psychiatrist Confronting Pandora Dealing With Death Pandora's Box

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of toil. It ensures the necessary vacation in those earthly and turbulent anxieties and affections, which would otherwise become inordinate and morbid. It brings around a season of periodical neatness and decency, when the soil of weekly labour is laid aside, and men meet each other amidst the decencies of the sanctuary, and renew their social affections. But above all, a Sabbath (one day of rest in seven) is necessary for man's moral and religious interests.”

“In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.”

Pain Wish One Day Anxiety Envy Who We Are Gaps Humiliation

Book:The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy

“I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.”

Feels Trying Reality Joy Focus One Day Anxiety Pressure Calm Excitement Nerves One Day At A Time

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.”

Ifs Two Three Voice Hours Months One Day Anxiety Provoking Garage Three Months

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.”

Inspirational Philosophy Funny Change One Day Anxiety Humorous Witty Dread Peanuts Sweet Love One Day At A Time Off The Wall Living One Day At A Time Take It One Day At A Time Snoopy Take One Day At A Time

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.”

People Years Children Matter Hard Feelings Might Moving Effort Tears One Day Anxiety Prosperity Impression Yield Torn Somewhere Else Blocked

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”

Real Form Joy Grief One Day Anxiety Hundred Clouds Sunshine Real Joy

Book:Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

“Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.”

“No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.”