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“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

Firsts Source Birth Anxiety Prototype

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live.”

Want Pleasure Situation Dangerous Danger Source Creatures Anxiety Destruction Originals Primaries Impulse Motive Destructive Living Creatures Will To Live Dangerous Situations

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.”

Source Anxiety Aspect Aging Deeper Contemplating Liberating

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.”

Thinking Eye Security Source Anxiety Possession Dazzle Security And Freedom Earthly Possessions

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.”

Way Home Practice Source Pride Anxiety Pressure Compulsion True Home

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.”

Feelings Worry Source Disease Anxiety Fundamentals Instinct Manifestation Anguish Psychopathic

Book:The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases

Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases

“To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.”

People World Ends Moving Spirit Mankind Source Bears Becoming Higher Anxiety Ambition Perfection Majority Pursuit Temper Grapes Thorns Countenance Ignoble Gait

Book:The Works of Walter Pater

Source: The Works of Walter Pater

“That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.”

Film Source Anxiety

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.”

Ifs World Want This World Source Anxiety Depth Deeper Surface Calmness

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.”

Way Seems Past Quality Land Events Source Anxiety Shadow Stations Outstanding Reliable Sources

Author:Will Self