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Anxiety is a physiological and psychological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. These components combine to create the painful feelings that are typically recognized as uneasiness, apprehension, or worry. Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. It may help a person to deal with a difficult situation, for example at work or at school, by prompting one to cope with it. When anxiety becomes excessive, it may fall under the classification of an anxiety... full article at wikipedia

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Love is full of anxious fears.	Ovid
Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.	Ruckett
The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.	Oscar Wilde
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.	John Dryden
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.	Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.	Paul Valéry
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.	Winston Churchill
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.	F. H. Bradley
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.	Charles Spurgeon
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