“Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.” ProblemEnergyQualityFocusOur LivesProduceAnxietySolutionsAnxiety And Fear Author:Walter Inglis Anderson
“People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.” PeopleHeartSelfQualityFamilyHuman NatureSorrowAnxietyConsciousEvidenceIntimacyProportionFamily LifeSelf ConsciousPolitenessDazzlingTrue Intimacy Book:Armance Source: Armance
“I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness” EarthQualityOffersAnxietyNegativePeacefulMeatEtcAllowingVegetablesSublimeRipeAggressiveness Author:Carlos Santana
“I think every one of us dreams, and we know what the quality of a dream is. In many ways, the reason dreams are so - mine are a little bit nightmarish, is that it's when you're really naked and can really face the things you don't face in reality, your darkest anxieties.” ThinkingKnowsWayLittlesReasonDreamRealityFacesBitsQualityMinesAnxietyLittle BitNaked Author:Shirin Neshat
“We know that our bodies suffer from overwork and lack of leisure: anxiety, mental-health issues - we're not designed to work more than about 40 hours a week. Our systems wear out and the quality of the work suffers. After 50 hours, it crashes and burns.” SufferingHoursQualityWeekAnxietyCrashOverwork Author:Katrina Onstad
“The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.” WaySeemsPastQualityLandEventsSourceAnxietyShadowStationsOutstandingReliable Sources Author:Will Self
“In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.” YearsStillsIndividualLostLosesNaturalPleasureQualityTakenViolenceShareChangedBrokenHealthyDespairAnxietyFairsBonesEnjoyedAppealsAcquireCompanionStrongestSuspicionHealedFair ShareBroken Bone Author:Yann Martel
“Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.” FeelsWritingKindJobsLinesSpaceQualityWorryAnxietyPagesRegardDown AndCalmTriumphBe KindEvery SecondCalm DownBe Kind To Yourself Author:Roddy Doyle