“No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.” KnowsGivingSeemsTroublePaintingPleaseAnxiety Book:Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883 Source: Monet at Vétheuil and on the Norman Coast, 1878-1883
“So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.” IfsNeedsMindBookSufferingTroubleSorrowComfortAnxietyCheerDistressEvermore Author:Walter Wangerin
“As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.” ClassPracticePsychologyFocusMeditationTroubleStudentsCollegeAnxietyIndiaAncientHandleAsiaFellowshipHarvardAdjustingFreshmanMeditation PracticeGrad Author:Daniel Goleman
“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
“Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then learned that songwriting and studying the voice actually pair with a lot of troubles that I had expressing myself, being vulnerable, trusting other people, trusting myself, calming anxiety. It became a life instructor of sorts and that is what kept me engaged with it.” PeopleWantVoiceStudyTroubleAnxietyTrainingProgramVulnerableSettlingEngagedPairsSongwritingVocalPerfectionistCalmingInstructorsTraining Programs Author:Alyson Stoner
“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.” IfsFeelsTodayCertainMorningTroublePaperAnxietyVoidEvery MorningCatastropheSigh Author:Lord Acton