Anxious
‘What is anxiety? It is the next day. With whom, then, does the pagan contend in anxiety? With himself, with a delusion, because the next day is a powerless nothing if you yourself do not give it your strength.’ – SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education
Alain de Botton • 6 highlights
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Anxiety, as Rollo May also pointed out, “is not being able to know the world you’re in, not being able to orient yourself in your own existence.”
Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
Anxiety is a natural response to resistance, but some people, through experience, strategy, or personality, marshal or move beyond this form of anxiety.
Adam Alter • Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
Anxiety, stress, unhappiness and exhaustion are often symptoms of a wider and deeper malaise. They are not free-floating afflictions, but symptoms arising from the way we relate to each other, ourselves, and to the world itself. They are signals that there is something wrong in our lives. They are signs to which we need to pay attention.