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“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”

“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.”

“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.”

Needs Feels Pain Life Is Ability Laughing Humour Communication Anxiety Laughter Gains Distance Relief Absurdity Hierarchy Laugh At Life Love And Communication

Author:Sara Davidson

“If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Moments Use Feelings Body Pain Actors Emotion Gone Involved Anxiety Tools Access Your Body Severe

Author:Joel Kinnaman

“To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.”

Mean Care Pain Anxiety

Author:W. H. Auden

“Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes, ten or twelve hours later, everything goes with it, all the hidden resentments, all the vain anxieties. The migraine has acted as a circuit breaker, and the fuses have emerged intact. There is a pleasant convalescent euphoria.”

Pain Hours Ten Anxiety Yoga Illness Vain Pleasant Concentration Resentment Twelve Usefulness Circuits Euphoria Fuse Migraine

Book:The White Album

Source: The White Album

“To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.”

Mind Body Pain Happiness Spirit Enjoy Pleasure Disease Anxiety Conscience Tranquillity Vexation

Book:The wisdom of being religious

Source: The wisdom of being religious

“I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.”

Thinking World Pain Suffering Realizing Anxiety Percent Privilege Elites Pain And Suffering

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoyment--as some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretation--but by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.”

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Book:Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill

“Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?”

Men Pain Strong Anxiety Great Men Traits Portraits

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.”

Kind May Littles Stills Matter Pain Existence Broken Arms Anxiety Meaningless Agony Angst Phenomenal Withdrawal Smack

Book:Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade

Source: Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade

“We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.”

Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

“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