1. “Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.”
—Sigmund Freud
2. “Meeting with anxiety can free us from boredom and sharpen our perception, If there is anxiety, there is life.”
—Rollo May
3. “Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.”
—Albert Ellis
4. “Anxiety is the gap between now and later.”
—Frederick Salomon Perls
5. “Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.”
—Carl Jung
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Self-Help Techniques to Manage Anxiety
Childhood Anxiety Related With Later Alcohol Problems
Test Anxiety—Strategies to Overcome
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