Anxiety Quote by Benjamin Franklin

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what…

— Alistair Begg

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in…

— Michel de Montaigne

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily…

— Elizabeth Bowen

The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and…

— John Calvin

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals…

— Mark Twain

Both India and Pakistan have a long history of deploying rhetorical strategies to skirt the issue of plebiscite or complete secession of the former…

— Nyla Ali Khan

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they…

— Nathaniel Branden

“The removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.”

— Jane Austen

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and…

— George Washington

Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious…

— Kenneth Keniston

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our…

— Samuel Johnson