“You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.” MayRoomsStudentsAnxietyCatPositivelySoothing Book:Chapters on Animals Source: Chapters on Animals
“It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square, if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence - not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.” IfsWantMayPersonsArtSoulPainPrayerSilenceSucceedAnxietyAnd LoveSaintEnthusiasmYour SoulResolutionChestsSquaresBe YouGreat ArtMeeknessNew StartPatience And LoveLove Prayer Author:Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) of Kafsokalivia
“Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.” PeopleMayFactsUsedTermCreativeDivineAnxietyMadnessPaidGreekInsecuritySensitivityDistinguishedCreative PeopleHigh Prices Author:Rollo May
“So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".” MindMaySaidAcceptingPracticeClearAnxietyEnlightenmentDifficultyAncientObstaclesThis LifeDeliveranceDisturbanceHindranceBurnt Out Author:Kyongho
“I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.” YearsWellsMayCharacterFacesBornLinesInspireAnxietyModelsThis LifeOperaPortraitsFatigueNeuroticHarlemVermeer Book:Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume