quotes

"Whenever a person is faced in life with a choice, his whole being trembles with the dilemma of what to do. It trembles because, being human, he wants both things but can't have both; because deciding always means being altered; and because alteration, however desirable, is always violent. Anxiety is the stage a person has to pass through on his way to creating himself."

Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
by Daniel Smith
page 89, first paragraph
hardcover edition published by Simon & Schuster, 2012

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