Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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John Cunningham Geikie

An undivided heart, which worships God alone, and trusts Him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | God | Heart | Wants | God |

John Cunningham Geikie

He is well along the road to perfect manhood who does not allow the thousand little worries of life to embitter his temper, or disturb his equanimity. An undivided heart which worships God alone, and trust him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | Equanimity | God | Heart | Life | Life | Little | Temper | Trust | Wants | God |

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, fully Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Character |

Apocrypha NULL

Let not anxiety enter your heart, for it has killed many strong men... Anxiety brings on old age prematurely.

Age | Anxiety | Anxiety | Heart | Men | Old age | Wisdom | Old |

John Christian Bovee

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Beauty | Fear | Life | Life | Wisdom | Beauty |

Jean de La Bruyère

If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Happy | Life | Life | Respect | Wisdom | Respect |

Christian Nestell Bovee

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Beauty | Fear | Life | Life | Wisdom | Beauty |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Courage | Defiance | Force | Foresight | Love | Self | Self-denial | Selfishness | Submission | Wisdom |

Samuel Meyrick, fully Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Defense | Evil | Good | Nothing | Wisdom |

Albert E Cliffe

Your subconscious mind produces in your daily life evidence of the thoughts you send back to it. The constant repetition of fear, anxiety and worry thoughts will bring upon you the same thing multiplied many times over, but the constant practice of positive thinking, making affirmations hour by hour that God is now healing your fears and worries, will bring magnificent results... You have the ability for successful living. You have the tools. The power you use is faith and the tools are your thoughts and ideas.

Ability | Anxiety | Anxiety | Evidence | Faith | Fear | God | Ideas | Life | Life | Mind | Power | Practice | Thinking | Will | Worry | God |

Leonard W. Doob, fully Leonard William Doob

For Goebbels, anxiety was a double-edged sword: too much anxiety could produce panic and demoralization, too little could lead to complacency and inactivity. An attempt was constantly made, therefore, to achieve a balance between the two extremes.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Balance | Complacency | Inactivity | Little | Panic |

Nels F. S. Ferré, fully Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferré

God made us for fulfillment through freedom. In making us for himself, he created us for unconditional and universal love. We are free only as we find this kind of love from, for, in, and through God. The anxiety of the loveless is a chain of fear.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Fear | Freedom | Fulfillment | God | Love |

Elio Frattaroli

Symptoms are part of the healing process. Anxiety is consciousness trying to happen. Falling down is a way of growing up.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Consciousness |

Zhang Zai, also Chang Tsai

Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Blessings | Death | Earth | Grief | Heaven | Honor | Life | Life | Peace | Poverty | Wealth | Will |

Walter Anderson, fully Walter Truett Anderson

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Action | Anxiety | Anxiety | Nothing |

Irving Singer

We are by nature thinking beings, and if we cannot escape anxiety about the inherent structure of our thought processes, how can we hope to creative purposive ideals that are congruent with reality instead of deflecting us from it?

Anxiety | Anxiety | Hope | Ideals | Nature | Reality | Thinking | Thought | Thought |

Arthur Schopenhauer

The man who has been born into a position of wealth comes to look upon it as something without which he could no more live than he could live without air; he guards it as he does his very life; and so he is generally a lover of order, prudent and economical. But the man who has been born into a poor position looks upon it as the natural one, and if by any chance he comes in for a fortune, he regards it as a superfluity, something to be enjoyed or wasted, because, if it comes to an end, he can get on just as well as before, with one anxiety the less.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Chance | Fortune | Life | Life | Looks | Man | Order | Position | Wealth |