Self Consciousness And Social Anxiety Quotes & Sayings

Exile from society allows person to disengage from meaningless activities and develop conscious awareness. A person's courageous struggle to eliminate the trepidation of social exile produces insights into what it means to be human. We can displace emotional disquiet by living a heightened state of existence. How a person's resolves the tremendous anxiety and dizziness that impetus comes from contemplating the inevitability of death, human freedom of choice, the moral responsibilities attendant to living in a selected manner, existential isolation, and the possibility of nothingness establishes a governing philosophical framework. A person must not rue ouster from society because release from moral and societal constraints spurs learning and advanced consciousness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch ... — David Foster Wallace

Cheese, in any form, is my guilty pleasure. I would rather have a cheese platter for dinner than any meal. There's nothing better! — Christine Taylor

Jill had described this kind of religious upbringing as a form of mental abuse, and I returned to the point, as follows: 'You use the words religious abuse. If you were to compare the abuse of bringing up a child really to believe in hell . . . how do you think that would compare in trauma terms with sexual abuse?' She replied: 'That's a very difficult question . . . I think there are a lot of similarities actually, because it is about abuse of trust; it is about denying the child the right to feel free and open and able to relate to the world in the normal way . . . it's a form of denigration; it's a form of denial of the true self in both cases. — Richard Dawkins

Books are like our children. They are often conceived by inspiration, but are born only by labor. — R.G. Yoho

RON: Just to say- I didn't know about much of it so can't take responsibility- and I'm pretty sure my kids had nothing to do with it- but if this lot are standing up here then so am I. — J.K. Rowling

Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us - the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewish people. We all have to forgive and understand the only way to stop the cycle of hate and abuse is not to allow yourself to get caught in it. — Sinead O'Connor

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing - they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. — Stephen Fry

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends. — Benjamin Franklin

The thing is, some girls think they can actually change guys. And what's funny is that if they actually did change them, they'd get bored. They'd have no challenge left. You just have to give girls some time to think of a new way of doing things, that's all. Some of them will figure it out here. Some later. Some never. I wouldn't worry about it too much. — Stephen Chbosky

I'm single because I was born that way. — Mae West

You're so adorable when you're nautical, — Joe Hill

I don't have many memories where I was truly happy. I lived for the day and got along the best I could. It's always been my way. — Raine Miller

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be. — Alexander Stubb

The people want government that works for them at every level. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear. — Amarillo Slim

Death is for many of us the gate of hell;
but we are inside on the way out,
not outside on the way in. — George Bernard Shaw

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it. — J.K. Rowling