Pastoral Resources

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.