“People are not scared by the downturns. Their biggest anxiety is missing out on the rally.”
Carl Wittnebert
“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt”
Thomas Merton
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
C.S. Lewis
“People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.”
Stendhal
“Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles”
Paul Fussell
“There's nothing wrong with a little anxiety to keep people on their toes. But anybody who's professional has no problems with me.”
Sean Connery
“The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
