“Anxiety is the dizziness we experience when we recognize we hold the freedom and responsibility for our life choices. More than anyone, alcoholics have a very clear sense of this dizziness, especially when we were coming to realize our own powerlessness over alcohol and that we could act differently.” ChoicesRealizingResponsibilityClearOur LivesAnxietyAlcoholAlcoholicsLife ChoicesPowerlessnessFreedom And Responsibility Author:Peg O'Connor
“Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.” ImportantCommunityResponsibilityAnxietyFactorsIndividualism Book:The Meaning Of Anxiety Source: The Meaning Of Anxiety
“we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.” KnowsAgeLossResponsibilityMiddleSorrowAnxietyTablesFolksDivisionMiddle AgesMiddle AgedMultiplicationSubtraction Author:Margaret Deland
“In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.” WorldWayResponsibilityMoralPoliticianAnxietyThreatArguingLuxuryEngagingMoral Responsibility Author:Andrew Solomon
“I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.” MenWellsFeelingsFilmResponsibilitySawsAnxietyFamiliarCopiesFrench Woman Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.” JoyResponsibilityAnxietyCapacityLatinTrue Meaning Author:Paulo Coelho
“You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you want misery, have more desires. If you want a blissfulness, then learn the art - even for few moments - of being desireless, and you will be surprised. Even for a few moments, if you are desireless, all anguish, all anxiety disappears. And you are so contented, so fulfilled, that you cannot ask for more. Your blessing is so much that you can only say that you bless the whole existence. Still it will be there. It is so much; it is overflowing.” IfsWantArtStillsWholeMomentsDesireAsksExistenceResponsibilityBlessingAnxietyMiseryDisappearBlessFulfilledAnguish Author:Rajneesh
“Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.” MenGodHandsNaturalResponsibilityLibertyWorryAudienceDespairAnxietyAbsolutesFinalsWaveShouldersEnthusiasmHatsAssuredOwingDisappearanceDespondencyUtter Despair Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work
“A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy's Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.” TryingYearsKindMayGuyInterestResponsibilityIssuesAnxietyInstitutionsScaredDeterminedProfessionExcitementHospitalsHealthcareDevotedAssuredBreakdownPupils Author:Thomas Addison
“Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.” BornResponsibilityDarknessAnxietyHeavyShoulders Book:Harbours of Memory Source: Harbours of Memory
“I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsLittlesMomentsActorsFatherFeltParentResponsibilityOffersAnxietyAnxiousGoing To WorkBeing A Parent Author:Chris O'Donnell