#anxiety

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Browning

#ambitious #anxiety #birds #cage #chain

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#attempts #attention #even #get #later

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band. ↗

— Jack Irons

#anxiety #band #battles #began #beginnings

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#after #anxiety #because #career #comes

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#creativity #handmaiden

But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#absolutely #alienated #anxiety #bear #been

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beyond #certainly #children #comprehension #emotional

To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#causing #could #god #honest #i

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#anxiety #does #empties #empty #only

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#calm #day #everything #excitement #feel