Alan Watts Quotes, Anxiety Quotes, Brain Quotes

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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To fear the worst oft cures the worst.

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Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day.

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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

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Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

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Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.

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Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

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The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

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You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

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If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

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Anxiety beclouds the future.

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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

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I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I'm developing and learning.

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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

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as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

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When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.

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