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Fretfulness.

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Fretfulness.

Sunday Inspiration.     Post by David Joel Miller.

“Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”

― Audrey Hepburn

“We are but older children, dear,

Who fret to find our bedtime near.”

― Lewis Carroll

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Wanted to share some inspirational quotes with you.  Today seemed like a good time to do this. There are an estimated 100,000 words in the English language that are feelings related. Some emotions are pleasant, and some are unpleasant, but all feelings can provide useful information. If any of these quotes strike a chord with you, please share them.

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“Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.”

― Lao Tzu

“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Wanted to share some inspirational quotes with you.  Today seemed like a good time to do this. There are an estimated 100,000 words in the English language that are feelings related. Some emotions are pleasant, and some are unpleasant, but all feelings can provide useful information. If any of these quotes strike a chord with you, please share them.

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Timid.

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Timid.

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations – 1841-1844

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

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Fear.

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”

― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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Insecure.

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Insecure.

“I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore”

― John Lennon

“I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

― Clint Eastwood

“It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.”

― Anaïs Nin

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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Anxiety.

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Anxiety

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”

― Epictetus

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

― Kahlil Gibran

“Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.”

― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

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Shy.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

― David Bowie

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manner were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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