"Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm."

-- Lucy Freeman

#Anxiety Quotes #Calm Quotes #Familiar Quotes

“What good would politics be, if it didnâ€™t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.”
“One thing that I've been doing for a long time is to wake up really early. I try to get up around 4 or 5 in the morning, long before most of my lab members are up, which gives me some quiet time to really think without distraction. I think that's important.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.”
“I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
“I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.”
“Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.”
“By doing good, we do well.”
“A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.”

Source : "Gymnastics Vault Needs 'Speed, Explosive Action'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2012.

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