"Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to."

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Source : "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

Michael Chabon

#Escaping Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Forget Quotes

“Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.”
“We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.”
“What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.”
“While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.”
“I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.”
“We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.”

Source : "Religion in the Reich" by Michael Power, (p. 142), 1939.
“... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.”
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”

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