anxiety

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

We fear the thing we want the most.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.