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Anxiety by Arnold Toynbee

Anxiety, the spice of life - Professor Toynbee, Philadelphia, Friday
Professor Arnold Toynbee, in a lecture at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, said that the world had "no moral claim" to enjoy political and economic stability. "Anxiety, insecurity and danger are normal conditions of human life," he said. "Do not dread or resent the insecurity that has overtaken the middle classes in the United States and other English speaking nations. On the contrary, welcome it as an adventure.
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Anxiety by Johnson

He (Dr Brocklesby) mentioned a respectable gentleman who became extremely penurious near the close of his life. Johnson said,
"There must have been a degree of madness about him." "Not at all, Sir, (said Dr. B) his judgement was entire. Unluckily, however, he mentioned that although he had a fortune of £27 000, he denied himself many comforts from an apprehension he could not afford them."

Anxiety by Lord Avebury

Never bear more than one trouble at a time; some bear three kinds – all they have ever had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.





























Cheerfulness by Michel de Montaigne

Constant cheerfulness is the sure sign of a wise mind.

Courage by Rollo May

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is rather the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage by Rollo May:

Courage is not the opposite of despair. Kierkegarde and Nietsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is the absence of despair; it is rather the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Courage by Rollo May:

Courage is not a virtue or value amongst other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage love pales into mere dependency! (??) Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.