Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
– Guy Finley
Worry is like a rocking chair-it gives you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere!
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
– Ralph Marston
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
– Dan Millman
We carry our prisons with us.
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.
Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
– Benjamin Franklin
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
– Charles Spurgeon
Cuddling literally kills depression, relieves anxiety and strengthens the immune system.
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyday is a struggle even when I’m at my best. My anxiety is always with me and my panic taps me on my shoulder a few times a day. On my good days I can brush it off. On my bad days I just want to stay in bed.
Living with anxiety is like being followed by a voice. It knows all your insecurities and uses them against you. It gets to the point when it’s the loudest voice in the room. The only one you can hear.
My big anxiety cure-all:
“I’m gonna die and this isn’t gonna matter.”
Makes light work of most daily stressors.
– Alex Hormozi
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
– George Bernard Shaw
There’s no situation that calls for mild anxiety. Either increase the level of stress to promote action, or forget about it and enjoy life.
– Johnny Uzan
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
– William Shakespeare
My Anxieties Have Anxieties.
When we’re anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze and food and work and endless hours online feel like comfort, but in reality they’re only casting their long shadows over our lives.
– Brené Brown
The true cause of anxiety is not just external stressors, but also unprocessed emotions and unresolved past traumas.
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have.
Worrying is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
– Wayne Dyer
A hundred-load of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.
I over analyze situations because I’m scared of what will happen if I’m not prepared for it
A head full of fears has no space for dreams.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Excitement and emotion arise when something is not understood. As it is understood, one naturally becomes unfazed. One naturally becomes equanimous.
– Kapil Gupta
Anxiety isn’t something that goes away; it’s something you learn to control.
I get nervous about everything, sometimes I literally don’t know why I’m anxious, I just am and no-one seems to understand that.
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
– Brene Brown
If worrying were an Olympic sport, you’d get the gold for sure.
The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
– Alain de Botton
A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.
– Jodi Picoult
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
– Dale Carnegie
I literally have to remind myself all the time, that being afraid of things going wrong isn’t the way to make things go right.
Anxiety is the result of imagining the future.
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
– Anais Nin
Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
– Eckhart Tolle
Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments – an inability to accept life as ongoing.
– Sarah Manguso
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
God didn’t do it all in one day. What makes me think I can?
Imagine how effective you would be if you weren’t anxious all the time.
Do your best and don’t worry.
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.
– Eckhart Tolle
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soon they’ll forget my number.
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
– Seneca
Food can become such a point of anxiety – not because it’s food, but just because you have anxiety. That’s how eating disorders develop.
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.
For fast acting relief, try slowing down.
– Lily Tomlin
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
Don’t lose yourself in your fear.
Troubles are a lot like people – they grow bigger if you nurse them.
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
– Arthur Somers Roche
Anxiety is like quicksand, the harder we struggle to escape, the deeper we sink.
Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.
– Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
Don’t let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.
Anxiety is one little tree in your forest. Step back and look at the whole forest.
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.
My need to solve the problem is the problem.
If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest.
– Daniel
Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.
Anxiety is not being able to sleep because you said something wrong two years ago and can’t stop thinking about it.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors.
– Rudyard Kipling
Don’t believe the things you tell yourself late at night.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
– Plato
It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
Felling like you’re about to cry when someone points out you’re doing something wrong.
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces depression and anxiety.
– Johann Hari
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry… Yesterday and Tomorrow
I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
– Tryon Edwards
Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
It iz the little bits ov things that fret and worry us; we kan dodge an elefunt but we kan’t a fli.
– Josh Billings
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
It can be exhausting and over whelming to be in your own skin.
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Anxiety is fear of one’s self.
It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying.
My body thinks something is gravely wrong, but my brain doesn’t have a clue what to do about it, so it starts racing to the worst possible conclusions.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
– Mark Twain
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
– James Russell Lowell
What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
– Michel de Montaigne