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“But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.”

Mean Wealth Security Anxiety Remove Gentleness Disturbing Refinement

Book:Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart

Source: Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart

“I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.”

Trying Social Stage Security Easier Anxiety Shy Freak Being There Manic Social Anxiety

Author:Sia Furler

“Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.”

“Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.”

Thinking Eye Security Source Anxiety Possession Dazzle Security And Freedom Earthly Possessions

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.”

People Mean Security Anxiety Percent Financial Obsession Therapy Upbringing Financial Security

Author:John Hodgman

“I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.”

Thinking Kind Mean War Security Conflict Anxiety Shots Hatred Greed Wrestling Nonviolence Civility Mediation

Author:Cornel West

“When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.”

Trying Values Security Anxiety

Author:David Kim

“Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.”

Security Anxiety Chaos Perpetual Anxiety And Fear

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.”

Mean Bigs Together Security Anxiety Slavery Chaos Awful Good Life Perpetual Nevertheless Anxiety And Fear

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.”

Parent Voice Behinds Childhood Security Source Wall Anxiety Filled Panic Bedroom Humming Bedroom Wall

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.”

Dream Answers Security Military Anxiety Western Finals Bombs Insecurity Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.”

“Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.”

Whole Life Is Taken Security Anxiety Whole Life Preparation Personal Security

Book:My Religion

Source: My Religion

“Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the next? The answer: You feel anxious. Anxiety that is denied makes us ill; anxiety that is fully confronted and fully lived through converts itself into joy, security, strength, centeredness, and character. The practical formula: Go where the pain is.”

Feels Character Pain Joy Next Growth Answers Stage Security Anxiety Ill Practicals Endeavor Formulas Anxious Denied Centeredness

Author:Peter Koestenbaum

“You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don't like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, 'As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don't I begin to hate you.”

“Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don't bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you want to ensure their safety in your life. The bird knows where it belongs, and will never fly to a wrong nest.”