We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.
The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'
I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
Something I learned when overcoming anxiety and depression was that I was not searching for happiness but for satisfaction with and in my life.
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.
Oh! The blissful sounds of nature Sink deep into your heart Give eternal joy, All anxiety melts away.
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.
Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying.
