Anxiety Quotes
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Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.
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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.
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If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.
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This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.
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The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
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Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
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I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.
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Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.
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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.
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O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
