“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.” HappinessTroubleDutyAnxietySpringPerformancesMidstUnhappinessAnxiousStrict Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.” PeopleWayTodaySocialDutyAnxietyObligationConsumersFeaturesConventionsSocial AnxietyPromiscuity Author:Pier Paolo Pasolini
“Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.” IfsNeedsShouldLooksImportantRememberDutySucceedAnxietyClaimsAimSimplicityComplicatedPrioritiesFringeGarmentsDominatingComplicated Life Author:Anna Brackett
“I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.” KnowsMenWayShowsMightReligiousLordWifeFailingSeriousDutyAnxietyMeetingsPrivilegeVariousNeglectPardonMisgivings Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse
“That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.” YoungDutyAnxietyMaturityAnxiousBehalfScornHis Dark Materials Book:Northern lights Source: Northern lights