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“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.”

Needs Feels Pain Life Is Ability Laughing Humour Communication Anxiety Laughter Gains Distance Relief Absurdity Hierarchy Laugh At Life Love And Communication

Author:Sara Davidson

“One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.”

Hard Eye Rich Impossible Anxiety Towns Disappointment Relief Bulls Get Rich

Author:Tom Stoppard

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

“In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.”

“As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how to handle the fear, then you have enough insight in order to solve the problem. The problem is to not allow that anxiety to take over.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it.”

Ifs Knows Way Care Suffering Practice Baby Anxiety Mindfulness Roots Embrace Take Care Relief

Author:Nhat Hanh

“It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”

Wells Feelings Lasts Pleasure Knowing Dog Anxiety Down And Relief Know Yourself

Book:Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.”

Care Pain Mother Suffering Compassion Cry Baby Arms Anxiety Picks Embrace Take Care Relief Like A Mother

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.”

Thinking Mind Sports Race Taken Happened Tvs Anxiety Athlete Interviews Relief Celebration Procedures Time To Think Exorcism

Author:Damon Hill

“Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.”

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Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility