Best anxiety & wish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.”

Thinking May Littles Self Light Desire Wish Born Consciousness Worst Anxiety Limitation Nonsense Anxious Flattering Self Consciousness

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.”

Men Littles Soul Matter Desire Found Wish Anxiety Advantage Recognition Deception Desire For Knowledge

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“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

“Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.”

Men Mean States Wish Sorrow Anxiety Errors Tension Servitude

Author:Epictetus

“The daily writing practice is something I used to hear batted around a lot in writing workshops - which is probably why I dropped out of all the writing workshops. I wish I could take credit for innovating a new approach to writing, but the truth is that I've managed to write books despite myself. I'm lazy and ungovernable and undisciplined, but I do have a lot of anxiety about never amounting to anything and ending up as a bag lady.”

Writing Book Wish Truth Is Anxiety Lazy

Author:Diana Abu-Jaber

“Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.”

Knows Feels Sometimes Wish Week Minutes Anxiety Sick Worried Thirty Bullshit No Point Wish You Knots

Author:Charlaine Harris

“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”

Ifs Inspirational Wish Fear Anxiety Educated Insightful Fear Of Failure Overcoming Fear Overcoming Failure Fears Of Life Living In Fear Fear Of The Future

Book:the Human Mind

Source: the Human Mind

“I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place by their virtue and talents; a simple and happy society, where the goodness of humanity is expanded to the maximum, and the evilness of humanity is constrained to the maximum; honesty, trust, kindness, and helping each other are everyday occurrences in life; there is not so much anger and anxiety, a pure smile on everyone’s face.”

Needs Country Helping Faces Humanity Wish Simple Kindness Virtue Talent Honesty Citizens Pure Goodness Anxiety Conscience Everyday Our Country Minimum Maximum Helping Each Other Evilness

Author:Xu Zhiyong

“I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.”

Art Bigs Wish Interesting Anxiety

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Mean Long Doe Might Joy Hate Strong Wish Grief Emotion Known Study Anxiety Seven Patient Inclination Adoration Manly Descendants Strong Man Restraining

Author:Ieyasu Tokugawa

“There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.”

Firsts Humans Individual Wish Greater Seeing Example Anxiety Negative Difficulty Tendencies Ease Manipulation Items Illumination Evoke Connotation Personal History

Author:Lionel Tiger

“Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of God; seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace.”

Joy Desire Wish Peace Anxiety Gods Will Forbidden Finding Peace

Author:Francois Fenelon

“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.”

“There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.”

Knows Giving Feelings Wish Anxiety Overcoming Give Me Nervous Insecurity Insecure

Author:Fred Durst

“It is impossible that one who has turned to the world and feels its anxieties, and engages his heart in the wish to please men, can fulfill that first and great commandment of the Master, 'You shall love God with all your heart and with all your strength' (Mt. 22:37).”

Men World Feels Firsts Heart Christian Wish Impossible Masters Please Anxiety God Love Orthodox Commandments Orthodox Christian

Author:Gregory of Nyssa

“I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.”

Wells Littles Joy Wish Proud Anxiety Cooking

Author:Maura Tierney

“We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.”

People May Wish Waiting Anxiety Late Assuming Dues Punctual

Author:Cyril Connolly

“I write letters to you that you’ll never see.”

“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.”

“In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.”

“I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.”

“You haunt my days and dreams.”

“The Fall will always be yours and mine…”

“Time' is the most threatening four letter word.”

“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.”

“That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.”

“I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?”

“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.”

“I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.”

“I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.”

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