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“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”

Humans Existence Worry Conditions Essentials Anxiety Preserves Tension Boredom Human Condition Sensitivity Confrontation Human Existence Anxiety And Worry

Author:Rollo May

“Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.”

Grace Conditions Stage Divine Anxiety Madness Sacred Sufficient Fright Insufficient Ailments Stage Fright Jesuit Epilepsy

Author:Charles Rosen

“Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.”

Men Conditions Anxiety Boredom Ennui Inconstancy

Author:Blaise Pascal

“A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.”

Ifs Wells Doe Self Conditions Despair Anxiety Absence Well Being Fulfillment Sufficient Guarantees Frustration Sense Of Self

Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.”

Inspirational Body Together Hate Religious Levels Worry Impossible Conditions Healthy Anxiety Bitterness Impatience Avarice Condemnation Healthy Body Unkindness Cellular

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.”

Knows Problem Causes Worst Conditions Anxiety Roots Scary Addresses Root Cause Really Scary

Author:Matty Mullins

“If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Force My Own Conditions Anxiety Majors Including Contemporary Bewilderment Magical Thinking

Author:Mike Young

“I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.”

Humans Conditions Anxiety Phrases Boredom Human Condition Emphasis Wretchedness Pascal Inconstancy

Author:Simon Critchley